Hey I found this quarter in the desert today? It was a good find? Does anyone know what it or its worth? It has raised rims on both side the lettering rides up the rim, the rim is raised on both side almost like someone squeezed it. I'm not a coin expert but I think this is rare?
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It looks like someone was in the process of making a silver ring out of it, and stopped before they finished. I've done this before, you hit the edge with a large spoon or small hammer all the way around until the edge is widened enough, then drill out the middle, polish, and you have a neat silver ring.
I dint believe it I thought that but the letter is so perfect and so the the shape it's too perfect to be hand made it has to be machine? I kept looking at it wondering if someone could do that by hand? It's a perfect circle?
It's what's called a Dryer Coin because it's been stuck for a long period inside a commercial dryer. The continuous revolution and the mass of the quarter itself cause it the thicken up like that. And no, I'm not kidding.
to CCF. It is not rare and did not leave the mint like that so not an error either. I don't see it as a Dryer Coin but it does look like a spooned coin. Either way,it is considered a damaged coin and worth melt value. John1
Ok how to we know this isn't a mint error? And if it was a spoon coin wouldn't it look deformed on the hit end? The lettering and all? I'm still not sure I swear I think this is an error coin?
Did you take the link to the pictures of the Dryer Coins? I own a lot of these (the pics are just one group of them I have). Your coin has all the earmarks of a Dryer Coin. Notice when you look at the inside curve of the rim in the pic of the OBV, you will note its not a smooth curve but "faceted." This is from the 'hits" the coin takes as it is being damaged. These facets show it was not a uniform force that turned up the edge all at once... tumbling in a dryer does this. And although I have never spooned a coin to make a ring, I assume the same non-smooth curve is typical of spooning.
It may have been hammered rather than spooned. It doesn't show the rounding over and altered of the faces of the coin that a dryer cent could have. The problem of doing this with a quarter is that the ring would be too small for an adult. More of a kids size ring. Figuring out what to do next probably stopped the process of making a ring.
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