Your Take On Spooned Coins.

No, they're really not. The exact same thing happens in the fin of a commercial dryer that happens to a spooned coin. Just takes a whole lot less time.

What cracks me up on FB all the time is the dryer dimes and pennies that people say are spooned.

Do you challenge us on our knowledge? Do you think you know better? Be welcome to challenge, but you must be point, to argue logic with facts.

I will be here and answer to your challenge if it is logic and not some kind of utopias. Those thinking are good if are backup by science. On what you say I do not see science.

I'm guessing that you CHOSE to ignore my statement up above - possibly because you KNOW I'm correct.




Umm, Beg to differ on that incorrect statement. - you are telling Us that we need to conform to your way of thinking here - Ain't gonna happen with me.

Having actually pulled many Dryer Coins out of commercial washers and dryers as a kid/teen, I can say that the face of a Dryer Coin may or may not have sever wear on it. I suspect this is due to how much dirt/sand/whatever was in between the inner and outer tubs as they were spinning around.

Since we have not observed one being made, the best I can assume is coins sit inside the bottom of the outer tub. As the inner tub spins, socks (commonly also found in between the tube) or some other small item in the void will catch the coins, carry them up the side of the tub, and the coins then drop, land on their rims, and the rim starts to flatten out.

The amount of dirt/sand/whatever the coin is tumbled with may or may not mar the surface of the coin greatly. See the link for Dryer Coin.

As to spooning coins, do we really think there are that many people out there doing it? Well...yes. Math and numbers are weird things.

How many coins hit by a hammer are out there? Thankfully a lot of people have enough common sense to realize that is what they have or we would see a lot more posted! How many vise coins do we see? How many coins people use large nippers on? People, for no reason at all it seems, just beat up coins.

No doubt people see how to make a ring from a coin with online videos etc., start the process, find out it's a lot more work than they are willing to put into it, and stop.

However, how many people have actually torn apart a front loading washing machine (or dryer) NOWADAYS that has an inner and outer metal tubs (most are plastic for household machines)? This would greatly limit the amount of Dryer Coins being made/found.

I've always assumed Dryer Coins come from commercial dryers, not residential ones. First, just the racket made by a coin in a dryer is enough to make you stop it and retrieve the coin, but you can't do this in a commercial dryer.

I am confident the effects on the coin we see take more than one cycle to achieve, which again argues for a long term presence in the dryer and it's commercial status and commercial dryers run far more loads than the average residential dryer which means they would generate more Dryer Coins.

Sometimes there just isn't a specific answer.

There are a billion ways to damage anything, including coins. Some you will never know what happened to it.

Most new collectors have the same wrong approach. They find a coin that looks funny, and off they go to make it fit an error. Often they find a similar coin on ebay or Etsy listed for $1,000 (or some other ridiculous number) so they figure they struck gold. This approach is 100% backwards.

Spend a few weeks and learn the minting process. Study. Then you will know what can happen during the minting process. If you know it can't happen during the minting process it's PMD.

There is a link to the Numismatic Glossary on the left side of the page. Perhaps you should spend some time exploring it in order to expand your vocabulary.