I've seen these same gouges in lots of Quarters and they look to be similar. Is this possibly something I saw here called - feeding finger damage ? Hard to see in first photo , to the right of mans shin
Those are damage from the reeded edge of another coin, as Kasia said. Feeder finger scrapes look much different.
@Dialupsux Feeder finger scrapes will appear raised just as die gouges do. The scrapes occur on the blank planchets before the coin is struck. They may appear as a single scrape or multiple scrapes. They may be light or bold depending upon how much out of whack the feeder finger was before being readjusted. They are also linear and go in the same direction but usually at an angle. And they should not be confused with linear plating bubbles.
Feed finger scrapes are from the feed fingers scraping across the face of the die not the planchets. When you find a coin that shows feed finger scrapes you will see that the scrapes are in the fields only. The fields are the highest part of the dies and if the scrapes had been on the planchets the fields of the die would have smashed them flat but left traces of them in the devices. Since the fingers scrape on the die instead, the marks are only on the fields, the highest part of the die. And since the scrapes cut into the fields of the die, the marks are raised on the fields on the coins. What I'm not sure of is whether the fingers scrape the hammer or the anvil dies.
The reverse of the coin is made by the anvil die, the obverse by the hammer die (IIRC). Are feed finger scrapes typically found on the reverse, obverse or both? I dunno...honest question.
I can't answer that but I cannot remember finding any on the obverse. Only found them on the reverse.
Not always. I have to admit I've seen a lot of feed finger scrapes on the rev of coins, I'm not sure I've seen them on the obv.
