Dryer Coins Explained With Image Gallery, Many Pictured, Some Extreme

Here's one that was found in a dryer by a friend at a laundromat. I'm sure it wasn't in the dryer for all those years and why anybody would carry a dime this old in their pocket in the first place is beyond me, but it's now part of my collection.

Glad they can be used. Now that they are in your files more people will likely be seeing them them

BTW - I the icon you designed for crediting me in the pics! I remember once seeing an old post somewhere showing all of them for the different members.

@sel:
Plus most people likely don't rip apart their own dryers when they quit working. Also, outer tubs in consumer dryers nowadays, I think, are plastic as opposed to when everything was metal. Hence the coins rim would not readily be disfigured as when a coin hit inside on a metal tub.

These al used to sit in a jar on my grandfather's workbench. When he was fixing his machines and found one, into the jar it went. I am glad he saved them all as they remind me of him.

Earle42
What are the chanced of me being able to use those images in an article?

That's a good one Bobby! That's along the lines of what I saw come from under an agitator. :)

yesterday a friend let me search his saved-up change he kept in a glass fish dish, a big pile of change. I lined/covered a baking sheet with a canvas bank bag & dumped the change onto it, spread it out & spotted this right away:




a nice 1999 washington dryer quarter/new jersey

there are a couple places around the coin where there is still just a faint hint of reeding lingering on a lighted edge.. but it is smooth all the way around.

it is just slightly smaller in diameter than a normal quarter and the new rim is just a tad taller on the reverse than the obverse, I can easily feel the difference. if you look carefully at the rim shadows in the obv & rev pix you can see it.

pretty cool, my first Dryer Coin find.

Nice find!