It wasn't what I expected for some reason. I could tell there was something different with it just from picking it up. It seems all the ones I see here on the posts are really ugly, this one is in decent shape considering the life that it has had.
I hope you all find one as well - just one of those oddities that it is nice to have one of (IMO)
I'm no expert but I'm not sure it's a Dryer Coin. To me it looks like someone started spooning it and gave up. If you search for "spooning coins" and click images, you'll see quite a few Roosevelts that look exactly like this.
Yeah, I don't know, I'm just raising the possibility. If you click Dryer Coin the ones I see with such an exaggerated raised rim look a lot more thrashed than this one. If you were meticulous about spooning I don't think the rim would be very "faceted" - after all, they make these into very nice rings. Clearly it's either spooned or dryer, unless there's another option I'm not aware of!
Definitely a Dryer Coin. Spooned coins are done to make a ring out of a coin. With a dime, once you spoon over material it would be too small in diameter for even the tiniest fingers.
Here's a video that explains the spooning process:
Thanks for all the great feedback. I really don't know how to tell the difference. Early stage Dryer Coin or spooned? I can say that the rim is sharp on both sides and that it is still perfectly round. I don't see any dings around the edge. The only device that seems to be effected is the bottom of the 4, don't know if that is even a factor because of the Die Deterioration.
Note: It looked like the rims on the spooned coins were more rounded.
@chafemasterj Thanks for sharing that video clip - it was really interesting.
Very cool - Thanks coop for doing that and also my little "Image By" Logo. Can you put that little logo up separately so I can download it and add it to my pics when I post them?
My newest 3-D sterogram. (you look at it turning the 5 rows into 6 and you can see deep inside the image. The squares don't look like they are even in height.
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