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I've seen something similar in the display of errors at the Royal Australian Mint, but never seen one for sale.   Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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both those are very interesting!  It appears that feeders are made of softer metals to reduce die damage.  |
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sorry for a stupid question but what is a Feeder Finger and what is it for?
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sorry for a stupid question but what is a Feeder Finger and what is it for? It's the wheel shown in Sap's post. It feeds the blank planchets into the coining press. As they say, it's all in the timing ... in this case, timing was a bit off.  |
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Here is a picture of what feeder fingers look like in a German press used at the Denver mint. I am not sure exactly what that wheel in Sap's photos is, but it is not a feeder finger, and I note that he was careful not to describe it as such. They look like some type of timing gears to me.  |
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OOPS........... the more I think about it, I'll bet that those wheels ARE in fact a design of feeder. What threw me was my perceived size of them. I would now venture to guess that these wheels may be in actuality, 16 or 18 inches in diameter.
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I have seen a few of these at the shows and they are usually not cheap. I have also seen a Lincoln Cent struck on a nail embedded in a feeder finger! How the nail got in there is another question. swcoin.ecrater.com
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I have seen a few of these at the shows and they are usually not cheap. I guess that just proves there is a market for just about anything. Prices on feeder fingers might come down a bit after the Chinese start putting them in large fake PCGS slabs. |
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Posted 01/29/2010 12:35 pm
