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 Posted 05/27/2024  08:25 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add aeromedic to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
Here's the latest addition. A 1934 Australian penny who shape has been altered dramatically.
The toning suggests it occurred many, many decades ago.
How and why are the questions.

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 Posted 05/27/2024  09:44 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add coaster to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Looks like an example of a Dryer Coin to me.
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Dryer Coin perhaps. May have been spooned instead.
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Agree, looks like a Dryer Coin.
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Interesting theory about Dryer Coins, but the Australian penny is much bigger in diameter than the American penny, nickel, dime or quarter. So a Dryer Coin is improbable. Having said that, getting stuck for a long period of time in some kind of mechanical device is certainly possible.
I was hoping that someone would have seen this kind of "shape change" on an Australian penny and how it happened. In the meantime, I'll keep exploring.
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Dryers were not made to specifically accommodate only US coins, aeromedic. Here's a Philippines 50 Centavos from my grandfather's dry cleaner shop.
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Dryer coin/Spooned. PMD.
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 Posted 05/28/2024  01:46 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add aeromedic to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
OK. It seems a "dryer" coin it is.
Thanks everyone for your input.
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