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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clawcoins, post: 3902856, member: 77814&quot;]If you read that link, the top images are of the feeding finger itself, which is of a different metal than dimes.&nbsp; Plus, if you look at the lower examples you&#039;ll see a long part of it which is part of the feeding finger.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also those top examples are not of the clad dime material but of a hardened steel which is what feeding fingers are made of.&nbsp; It&#039;s easy to figure out.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>The example below in blue are feeding fingers.&nbsp; This is a minting machine (though not the exact one the US Mint uses).&nbsp; So what basically happens is the rotational shift gets off sync and the blue feeding finger gets stamped it self.&nbsp; Or, a coin isn&#039;t discharged from the chamber fully and a feeding finger gets stuck/out of sync again and something happens.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1028617[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The linked article paragraph is not well organized and may be confusing.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coins at the top of this thread is just damaged.</p><p>if in doubt, just send it to a top TPG.&nbsp; I really don&#039;t care, we&#039;re just here to try to help people understand what they have.&nbsp; Most people, when they see &quot;something different&quot; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>If your dime is of a feeding finger, then it won&#039;t be the clad material. It&#039;s weight will be way high and probably not round at all (look at the examples on that webpage).&nbsp; If it was struck through a feeding finger then it will have certain indicators .. you can figure out what those are ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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