Unusual Dime Sized 1998 Wheat Cent

Yep, looks like a " Dryer Coin"--it got stuck inside the drum of a commercial dryer and the endless spinning banged in the edges until it's dime-sized. It sure has that look at least.

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Thanks for the help, that is exactly what it is, just never seen one before.

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The term spooned indicates that the coin is one that has been tapped on the edges with a spoon as an early phase in the creation of a coin ring.

It is not the term to use for a Dryer Coin, which is indeed what this is.

Thanks,
Bill

Can you look at the coin and tel what has been banging against the edge of the coin? Spoon, hammer, dryer fin, something else? Did you see these specific coins get taken out of a dryer? Or is it possible that something else beat on the rims? Considering these type of things WERE created by beating the edges with a spoon back in the days before there really were commercial dryers commonly available I have no objection to the use of the term "spooned" to be applied to any coin that has had the edge beaten in such a manner. It is no more wrong than calling them Dryer Coins unless you have documentation that they were actually removed from a dryer. I would suggest thuse of quotes around spooned though to indicate that it is a generic term and not a specific indication of what was actually used on the coin. Same comments go for the use of the term "dryer".

More important is the appearance of the obverse and reverse. When they have been beat to heck like the OP's coin or it is a clad coin(too difficult to spoon), then it should be safe to assume that it came from a dryer or some type of tumbling device. Why would a ringmaker/spooner bother with defacing the obv and rev? That defacing fits better with slow and steady device erosion from friction tumbling than it does with intentional defacement through brute force.

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