Coins struck with dies scraped by the feed fingers.

I just saw one of these coins on a Lincoln cent. Anyone care to post examples of this characteristic from their collection. What type coins are they mostly found on?

 

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Here is a cent that I found roll searching. You can see the feeder finger scrapes on the reverse.

 

Thanks, that matches the one on Error Ref.

 

Cool. It's almost identical. That's crazy

 

From your statement on the other thread, your opinion needs to be revisited insider

 

Well I'll be the first one to ask for additional education from you or anyone.

I've been taught that the PL marks on your two Morgan's on the "other thread" were caused by over-polished dies.

It is INCONSEVABLE to me that the feed fingers can cause parallel gouges in the die that struck the cent above YET slightly rubbed your dollars just enough to "polish" an area of their field. I'm patiently waiting to be educated; that's why I started this thread.

 

Sorry....I couldn't resist.

 

@furryfrog02

Do you see any feed finger scrapes on the Morgan dollars above? I couldn't resist.

 

http://www.vamworld.com/Feed Finger Gouges

 

THANK YOU! You have educated me. You know what they say about "Old Dogs" I have some studying to do!

 

"Inconceivable"

 

What do you think caused the long raised line that goes through the bottom of the O in one ?

 

That's a gouge from the feeder finger. Notice my bottom morgan pic. Under the viewers left wing there is a gnarly gouge from the finger. Bigest and deepest finger gouge I've ever seen on a morgan. The pic doesn't show just how deep and gnarly it is but you get a good feel for it.

 

Dang , it looked raised to me , better get some new glasses I guess .

 

My credibility on this subject is shot. Nevertheless, @Cascade you have confused me. I see the gouge under the wing. If a feed finger damages the die, it leaves an incuse mark on the die. Coins struck from that die should have a raised mark where planchet metal filled the gouge on the die. So, it looks raised on the Morgan as one would expect.

More education please.

Looks raised to me also!

 

A gouge in a die causes a raised image in the coin. I would consider a gouge in a die as an incuse 'damage'.

Sort of like a die crack, leaving a raised line in the coin.

 

What do you mean by more education & being confused? You summed it up well. It's an incuse gouge on the die that transfered to a raised artifact on the coin.

 

Ok I got it now . For some reason I thought the feeder fingers grabbed the planchet . But they struck the die , makes sense now . Thanks all !
Still it would be nice if someone had a pic of the feeder arms and how they worked as I couldn't find anything .

 

A Feeder Finger?

https://sullivannumismatics.com/coin/ngc-25c-2000-d-maryland-quarter-struck-feeder-finger-unique