Unusual Dime Sized 1998 Wheat Cent

Cool rings!
I always thought spooning was more commonly done on silver coins, but I digress...not like it matters, lol.

To spoon a coin to make a ring would usually be done with a coin large enough in diameter to have a end result ring to fit a finger. I believe a nickel or quarter to be large enough to do this. A dime or cent would not (IMHO)(except for a babies ring)provide enough material to shape a ring.

" Dryer Coins" are not made at home...but in those large, commercial units at laundromats.
A coin gets stuck in the fin, and bangs around in there for numerous cycles until returning to circulation.
I think forums have covered this subject a few times.

I personally think ,they first experiment with the smaller denominations or just for the heck of it before they try ro attempt making the ring out of a quarter or a half dollar. Well I have experimented an I put a cent in a dryer to see the results it was my friends place. I left it in there for six months. When I took it out of the dryer the edges were bent out of shape and distorted and not round at all. I could see how banging the edges of a coin with a spoon to become round ,because you are in control of it not no dryer ,sorry can't by that theory and I did it already and proved it to myself.

JAZEC

Well, I have practiced the ring making, and did not (and would not) consider practicing it on a small cent. Too small to easily handle. The goal is a ring, even if the practice ones are crude. And, if you are ultimately going to make one out of a half dollar, you need to learn how the silver behaves.

I like that you did do a dryer experiment...but the results don't prove that every coin that comes out of every dry come out uneven like yours.

Was the coin just hanging out with the clothes that were being dried for six months? If so, I'm pretty sure that is not the same situation that happens in a commercial Dryer Coin.

By the way, our results were less than steller. But it looked much better than that penny. :) The kids thought it was cool, and we are going to revisit the idea.

The coin was done in a Laundromat I said that it was my friends place.The coin was placed in a commercial dryer,

JAZEC

Conder, I have been given a small handful of coins that were removed from the inside of a commercial dryer in a Laundromat in Myerstown, PA many years ago. So I have seen them first hand right out of the dryer. I can therefore tell exactly what happened to the coins. Mine look just like the ones seen above that are described as Dryer Coins. The coins shown look exactly like coins that I have here:-)

As a group, We've been around this horn before, more than once in these forums. These coins were never spooned. This is exactly what happens when the coins get stuck in the fins of a commercial dryer. They are sometimes removed after more than six months of being banged around depending upon when the dryers are serviced.

Have Fun,
Bill

Ok Jazzcoins, if you are so confident in your "theory", then how do you explain the abuse to the obverse and reverse of the coins

And you still have not explained why someone would do it to a cent because a cent would not be good practice for making a much larger coin out of silver- two completely different metals that will react differently. That would be like trying to learn how to repair a car by working on a motorcycle
Not to mention the fact that you are going to mash your fingers multiple times with a hammer trying to tap on a cent due to the small size.

Occam's Razor still reigns supreme...