Got this 1921-D Morgan a week or so ago and now, through the magic of CoinPeople, I can get decent pictures of it. Apparently die cracks are pretty common on 1921-D Morgans but this is one of the few cracks I have ever found on any coin I have owned. It has cracks in a number of places around the rim on both sides. I don't collect them but it was exciting for me to find one out of the blue...

Anyone else have some they want to share?

That's a beauty. Great picture too.

Nice Ribus. How did you take the picture, through magnifying glass or just good macro?

I found your setup photos in the lightbulbs thread. Excellent idea using 3 rolls of cents as ballast on the tripod.

Yep. That is all I did. Use the macro mode on the camera. CP has tought me well on photos now and I am likely to be very dangerous.

And for the roll ballast, well, I am cheap and a coin collector so I used what was at hand.

From 2 Portuguese coins I recently got...





I didn't do anything special. I just took my original supersize pics and cut out the areas and paste them as new pics. No macro or anything like that.

Nice ones!

I just found out mine is a 1921-D VAM-1W "Die Break Between B-U"


http://www.robjoyce.com/vams/1921_d_vam_1w.htm

Look at the bottom of the page for the pic and you will see how cracked it really is. What I posted is just one little part. The red lines on the pic in that link are all cracks, breaks, etc. It really is pretty neat.

And if I am not mistaken, the R6 means that it is fairly rare. Not sure exactly how much. One site said 13-30 another said "Very Rare - Several Hundred".

Nice coins and the pics are very nicely done.

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Cool! The cracks are coming out of the woodwork.

Okay, made me add one of my duplicates. I have two 1899 O morgans with the exact same circle die cracks. One is just a little more developed I bought these about 1 year apart. It was destiny.


http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=909130

http://www.omnicoin.com/coin_view_enlarge.aspx?id=909246

My so-called dollar from the Minnesota Cenntenial year is riddled with obverse die-cracks. Most prominnt through T and E in Centennial and below the 5 in 1858. Its interesting as well as an aluminum medal inscribed as IRON / NICKEL from Virginia, Minnesota. Too many interesting oddities in addition to die cracks.



Close-up of the major cracks:


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Forgot here is another die crack. (Reverse) 1888

Also a 1921 with a die crack on reverse.

My 1960 Turkey 10 Kurus (Look At the Red Arrows to See the Die Crack)

How about a "horned O"

Now that is a wicked cool beard.

Great die cracks. This is good stuff.

Drooling Liberty, very nice!

Some of my Russian die cracks after hoarding too many of them and yet these few:

I seem to have trouble finding more examples

1747 Polupoltnnik:


closeup:


You can see a die crack around her bust area if you looked carefully. Don't be a pervert though, she might bite.

1811 2k


Closeup:


1842 ruble


Closeup:

posted this one before. cracks on both sides.

It is amazing what you see when you start taking pictures. I was just taking a pic of one of my Shield Nickels in my type set and noticed this.

One of my favorites.

http://www.myweb.cableone.net/stackgenerat...Coins%20017.jpg

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One of my horsey coins.

The following are Finnish 1923 pennis

No cracks


Die cracks at 4,7, and 9 o'clock on the obverse


Die cracks at 5,7,10, and 12 o'clock on the obverse, and at 2:30,6, and 8 on the reverse

Looks very similar to my 1842/1 overdate ... yours has the "blundered 4", too! I can't tell from this picture whether or not the "1" is overstruck, though. And not just the die cracks, but the die polish is spectacular!

Here is mine, BTW: 1842/1-АЧ rouble

Just found my first die crack, running to the "C" on the reverse of this Netherlands 10 cent.



There. Plus I finally embedded a photo correctly... life is good.

I didn't even notice about the die polish!

Congradulations on your first photo post! Looks neat btw.

Don't know what happened to the image, but you can see the die crack in the upper right oak leaf:

Die Crack on the 1799 Silver Dollar

This one goes from the wing to wing of the eagle on the reverse.

Nebraska quarter

This is the nicest one I've seen up untill now, in my area of collecting.
A Belgian crown, 5 francs 1873 with a nice break along 'FAIT LA F'







Jos from Belgium

Here's one on my 1835 1/3 Farthing.

awesome coin!

My Romanian coins with cracks.
http://www.vechituri.as.ro/defecte.htm
Click on the pictures for larger view.