1994-P Kennedy with Die Gouges

Windycity · February 7, 2015 10:28PM

I know many series have collectors looking for significant die varieties including die gouges... not aware of such collectors for the Kennedy series but I found this coin very interesting. It has a series of die gouges (to me it looks like more that just die polish lines) on both the obverse and reverse very noticeable to the naked eye. Haven't seen such coins in the Kennedy series. Images below. Are there collectors of Kennedy die varieties beyond the major doubled dies?

Rampage · February 7, 2015 11:42PM

That's pretty cool. I've never seen anything that significant on a Kennedy before.

AUandAG · February 8, 2015 12:51AM

Spectacular gouges in a modern coin. The WOW factor baby!!!!

bob

ricko · February 8, 2015 1:09AM

Those are certainly significant....have not seen anything like that on Kennedy's before....will have to check my stash... Cheers, RickO

Windycity · February 9, 2015 5:45AM

Is there a Kennedy collectors site like we see for other series? VAMWorld for Morgan and Peace dollars, Ikegroup for Ike, etc.

FredWeinberg · February 9, 2015 6:14AM

They look like the Feeder Finger scrapes on coins,
especially State Quarters and Sac/Pres. Dollars,
that have come out of the Mint in the past years.

It's possible that the die has been harshly polished
to take out die clashes, but you usually don't see
die clashes in the field area on the left obv., where
a lot of them are on the coin.

Based on the scans, I'd vote for FF scrapes that were
on the Obv. & Rev. Die itself.

The one rectangular 'gouge' is a bit of mystery though.