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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Burgess, post: 4851086, member: 105098&quot;]looks like a feeder finger die gouge to me, BUT it is normally on the reverse, not the obverse because the feeder finger scrapes across the anvil die when it&#039;s out of adjustment and not the hammer die. which is &quot;up&quot; on the feeding between the dies</p><p><br /></p><p>could it be a die gouge still? Yes, not from feeder fingers, but it could be from something else, could be a lot of things. if it was a die gouge, there should be other examples of it out there besides just this one which leads me to believe it is a cut of displaced metal that was then pushed back over the cut..... I don&#039;t find anything similar on any image searches I did for die gouges on 1951 Ds and you&#039;d think if it were a die gouge others would have turned up in the last 70 years to compare it to of that die pair.</p><p>all in all, it&#039;s the more likely cause of the raised metal, a cut to the surface that was then pushed back down during circulation covering the cut over with a raised area of metal.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am in agreement with messydesk as the more likely scenario.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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