1983P Reverse die about to shatter!

[koinmon]

This die has lasted too long; cracks are appearing everywhere.

[makecents]

Nice!! Even though there are year/mints that have ran a lot longer, it would appear that the 83P mint got there moneys worth out of every die they ran. I've noticed so many errors and extremely worn dies from this series.

[GrumpyEd]

Tons of the 83s had corner cracks from the building and many had bad plating.
They hadn't tweaked the dies to work well with zinc yet and the plating wasn't good either.

On the bright side, they had a bunch of nice doubled dies

[makecents]

Tons of the 83s had corner cracks from the building and many had bad plating.
They hadn't tweaked the dies to work well with zinc yet and the plating wasn't good either.

On the bright side, they had a bunch of nice doubled dies

Good info Ed!! Thank you sir.

[jfines69]

Bet that made some serious noise when it broke out... Nice find... Since Abe is pretty much rubbed out on the rev I wonder if the mint workers initials were J. W. B.

[Petespockets55]

Bet that made some serious noise when it broke out... Nice find... Since Abe is pretty much rubbed out on the rev I wonder if the mint workers initials were J. W. B.

As in middle initial stands for Wilkes?

[jfines69]

As in middle initial stands for Wilkes?

Could be