I hope you still have this, Charlie. I have one of its babies, and I've seen 2 more on cointalk. All separated at birth. BAD insight, guys. This seems to be some sort of feeder finger error. https://coinauctionshelp.com/feeder-finger-mint-error/
D H - if you're referring to C C's dimes at the top of this post, they are NOT errors, or Feeder Finger errors. If you have two similar ones, your coins are damaged also. Period That's a GOOD insight
Mine.... https://i.usacoinbook.com/img/main/1/1/6/1574776304956fe6fab30e3dn.jpg About to go up in price.
What is this??? Just posted a few days ago! Gosh! https://www.cointalk.com/media/2004-dime-can-anyone-tell-me-if-this-errors.13205/
Fred is one of the top Mint Error experts in the world! He is definitely not wrong https://www.fredweinberg.com We are here to tell you the truth.. Smarten up! Don't insult!
If you read that link, the top images are of the feeding finger itself, which is of a different metal than dimes. Plus, if you look at the lower examples you'll see a long part of it which is part of the feeding finger. Also those top examples are not of the clad dime material but of a hardened steel which is what feeding fingers are made of. It's easy to figure out. The example of the Sag dollar is the dollar being struck with a feeding finger over top of it - the feeding finger itself is not shown. The example below in blue are feeding fingers. This is a minting machine (though not the exact one the US Mint uses). So what basically happens is the rotational shift gets off sync and the blue feeding finger gets stamped it self. Or, a coin isn't discharged from the chamber fully and a feeding finger gets stuck/out of sync again and something happens. The linked article paragraph is not well organized and may be confusing. The coins at the top of this thread is just damaged. if in doubt, just send it to a top TPG. I really don't care, we're just here to try to help people understand what they have. Most people, when they see "something different" believe it must be a mint error and go searching for an answer and thus totally disregard all the possibilities of damage that a coin may go through after leaving the US Mint. If your dime is of a feeding finger, then it won't be the clad material. It's weight will be way high and probably not round at all (look at the examples on that webpage). If it was struck through a feeding finger then it will have certain indicators .. you can figure out what those are ...
