1973 Washington Quarter With Copper Edge?

to CCF. We would need to see a photo of your coin to help you ID it.
John1

PMD (Post mint damage). Perhaps from a Coinstar or similar counting machine. Sort of like the laundry mat effect only on the rim instead of the face.

I appreciate the replies but have no idea what any of it means. Please note that I am not a big time collector so lay mens terminology is sorta needed.

What does spooned or drier refer to or mean?

Thanks again. This is a cool site, I have been around reading alot of posts. Amazing!

Ok, got it.

So, like it went around in a dryer for a long time and wore the edge down?

Not as exciting as I hoped for but its cool and will go into my collection.

Thanks! I am sure you will see me again as I am always finding odd coins.

Back during the second world war a common practice among the military enlisted men was to take a quarter or half dollar and use a table spoon as a light hammer to tap the edge of the coin all the way around until the edge spreads out and the diameter of the coin was reduced to the point where the center of the coin could be drilled out leaving a silver ring. This was known as spooning a coin.

A coin that gets trapped inside the fins of a commercial dryer also receives many many light impacts on its edge as it tumbles in the dryer with the same result, the edge spreads and the diameter of the coin is reduced. This is a Dryer Coin. (Unlike a spooned coin the edge of the Dryer Coin can eventually be rounded over due to all the oblique impacts the edge also receives. In spooning a coin the idea is to avoid the oblique blows that round over the edge.)

With a silver coin it may not be possible to tell if the edge was spooned of it it was in a dryer. Typically clad coins or small diameter coins are not spooned because the clad coins would not make good rings (the copper turns your finger green) and the small coins would result in rings that too small for almost anyone to wear.