ldhair

Cause I want to, has been my reason many times over the years. We each have different reasons for wanting something in a TPG slab. 

What is your native language? It is clearly not English. 

We are already in an age-related redistribution of collector coins (and kegs of wheat cents, etc.). Children born 1935-1950, who collected coins, are now dying at an accelerating rate. Without a specific, previously unidentified source, the "hoard" is merely part of statistical randomness. (Humans are sensitive to pattern making - it is one way we organize the world. Pareidolia is one kind of the same class of human organizational actions.)

My first gold coin from 30 years ago.
 

Looks to be a collar clash. Collar Clash (error-ref.com)

Actually, no. They do not.

No. It's not a proof.

The Op is only here to play games. The images show enough to know the coins are trash.

The Op is only here to play games. The images show enough to know the coins are trash.

I enjoy some coins with nice bold die cracks and have bought a few over the years. Not worth much but I find them fun.
 

I don’t know if you have the time or the inclination to do it, but a picture montage showing the progression of the crack from the earliest stage to the latest would make for a very interesting thread.

I remember it well. The mint said the coin was a thank you for those that bought the gold set each year. 
Those that had been collecting the Silver Eagles from the start were really ticked. They had been paying $23 each year but now had to spend $1000 to keep their sets complete. For months CoinWorld was filled with letters to the editor from mad collectors. Many thought the mint would back down and offer just the Silver Eagle to everyone. They didn't and that was just the beginning of the games the mint started playing with collectors. 
Below is the mailing that was sent out in 1995.
 

My first gold coin from 30 years ago.
 

My first gold coin from 30 years ago.
 

As greenstang wrote we would need to see photos of both sides to see the condition, photos should be cropped so that we see more of the coin than the background.   From only the obv photo you supplied your coin looks to be lightly circulated and not reprocessed.  Here is a screenshot of sales from the Great Collections archives, they have not auctioned any AU examples and only one circulated coin an XF several years ago.   But from this you can see there is not much price spread form that XF to a low MS example.   If you are planning to try and sell the coin raw I would guess a fair value would be around $75.   If you were to send this to NGC for certification and it was graded as AU58 it might fetch more as there is some demand for AU58 examples for the everyman registry sets.