I was wondering this weird dime is worth anything

I have had this dime for a few years now and I was wondering if it is worth anything or what it is. This dime is smaller than a average dime and has a copper ring around it. Please let me know. Thanks.

 

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it spent a long time rolling around in a commercial clothes dryer.

Richard

 

Ditto. Dryer coin.

 

It is worth exactly, $.10

 

:welcome: to CT! Sorry, not worth alot. Nice find, though! Keep on searching

 

Someone has got to explain this dryer coin to me, are you saying from bouncing around in a dryer the edges are mashed down?? If so that is not the case.

 

Dryer coin... seen it MANY times.

 

Ok so i have a nickel with the same thing. Only i can pinch my nickel and spin the brass ring around the nickel. The bezel isnt attached to the coin. Still a dryer coin?

 

It took me a while to believe people that a dryer could do this to a coin, but it happens. What happens is the as the coin spins in the dryer (usualy a large industrial one, I'v never seen it happen with any coins in my dryer at home). It rolls on its edge and is bumped over and over again, the resulting damage looks like the coin above with a rounded edge. Almost like someone added some sort of extra material, but it's a result of continuously being banged and rolled on it's side. If you drop a coin on it's side you can't dent it, so it only makes sense that if you do it often enough the damage will become sort of uniform.

Similar damage can be caused by a hammer or heavy spoon. People do it someimes to make rings out of silver coins. I believe it was originaly sailors in the navy who started spooning coins as a way to pass time, but please don't quote me on that. There are some excellent posts on here about spooning if you search for it. As for your nickle, some one tried to turn it into a good luck charm or pendant, I can't see any way that could be a mint error.

 

No, apparently your nickel has had a bezel put on it, most likely to be suspended from a necklace, bracelet or the like.

 

I have several would like to know also what they are worth. Small dimes with raised copper ring help

 

To get the best possible response, start a thread and include a photo of the coin. More often than not there is a simple explanation to these things. I personally “spooned” many coins myself as a youngster. Tap the edges of a coin over and over with a spoon and it raises the rim. Or a coin can get caught in a commercial dryer and spend a year rolling and raising the edge.... In the end though it is all speculation without a photo. Welcome to CT!

 

I made a bunch of those in 5th grade...

 

I also thought spooner. Earlier in the thread (7 years ago) they were all saying dryer coin. But those have mushy details both sides and no raised rims. It's worth 10 cents if you can turn it in as a mutilated coin.

 

Is this dime Worth anything I got it from change at a store

 

German soldiers during WW 1 made rings and jewelry out of coins or other metal. They're called trench jewelry or trench art. Soldiers, especially POW's, would exchange them for something they wanted from their captors or other soldiers--chewing gum, cigarettes, food, blankets, toiletries, etc. I have some German trench jewelry that my grandfather obtained while serving in France during WW 1. Interesting stuff, but not really worth a whole lot.

 

I got this a year ago from change at a store I think know what it is I saw a post that read your lucky to have one of these 1943 brass cent

 

I don't believe that a dryer can make a perfect cut on the edge of a dime and still be able to see the lines on the edge