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Valued Member
United States
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A coworker found this dime in his change and asked me about it. I told him I would upload it to this forum and ask for opinions. It looks like a Lincoln Cent rim on a Roosevelt dime. The year is 19xx as I can't read the date.   |
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Valued Member
United States
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Very odd. Can't say that I've seen one like that.
Hopefully one of the more knowledgeable members here will be able to help you out.
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Valued Member
 United States
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Pillar of the Community
Spain
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a laundry or washing machine coin.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1952 Posts |
it's a spooned dime. the color is because the inside is both copper and nickel. the copper being the darker of the two most likely rolled over the nickel side. but it is spooned
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1807 Posts |
I'm going to agree with manilagalleontrade on it being a Dryer Coin. I think it's too small to be making a ring out of it, especially it being a clad coin. |
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Valued Member
United States
373 Posts |
Well, whoever did this to the dime did a great job. It looks professionally done.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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It is not something anyone did, it just happened to get stuck in the fin of a commercial clothes dryer and tumbled for a few months. The tumbling action slowly folds the rim inward, reducing the diameter of the coin and creating a thick rounded edge. These turn up here quite often, just go to the top of the page for the search function and type in " Dryer Coin"  |
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Valued Member
United States
265 Posts |
I found one in change a few days ago. Mine looks like the end of the coin has been ground down causing the ends to turn up and the rim to be worn smooth.
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Valued Member
United States
52 Posts |
no value over face, but still interesting.
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Valued Member
United States
373 Posts |
Too bad it isn't a mint error. Haha.....
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New Member
United States
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I have seen these before. I disagree with Dryer Coin. These are done intentionally and I believe they are indeed called spooned or rolled edge. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You can't spoon clad coins, the metal is too hard not to mention the fact that dimes are really too small to be spooned. Spooning was traditionally done to 90% silver quarters and half dollars so they could be fashioned into a ring.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It's a coin with dryer edges. It's to small for a ring. Here is a ring being made out of a silver half .   Edited by coindexter
08/30/2009 2:13 pm
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