Strange Roosevelt Dime

You can't spoon clad coins, the metal is too hard not to mention the fact that dimes are really too small to be spooned. Spooning was traditionally done to 90% silver quarters and half dollars so they could be fashioned into a ring.

coindexter, I agree with a Dryer Coin. What great spooned silver coins you show. Did you do them or purchase them?

those are friggin' COOL!

How do they do it?

Very neat!

I have seen a number of these "spooned" coins and it's done on purpose. I know a guy who makes these spooned coins for fun! I have a spooned copper penny he gave me, I will take a picture and post it. They are an interesting novelty item though?

I saw something like that on the weekend. I helped my father-in-law sort out his loose change, and we came across one Canadian Caribou quarter that had a copper-coloured outside rim. The coin didn't look at all damaged, and the rim didn't look disfigured in any way, it was just copper-coloured. The reeding on the edge was totally intact. I told him to set it aside for now. No, I didn't get a picture of it.

Now, I can understand these things happening with American coins, because you can see the copper on their edges, but surely I can't see the same thing occurring on a Canadian coin, especially with the intact reeding. My thoughts is that perhaps the Mint struck it on a foreign blank of some sort, considering that they have several overseas contracts. Any ideas?

i think I found a 1996 filled mint mark il post pics

Looks like it just has a bezel around it for mounting
into some type of hokey jewelry. I have seen nickels
and foriegn coins with bezels around them just like that.

They were placed into bezels to be used as decoration on
tie clips, money clips, and cufflinks etc...

If you look at it, that copper looks like it is added on,
not part of the coin. Just like some of the bezels mentioned.