Dryer coin vs spooned coin

Sounds like a spooned coin to me Or would that be FAARDEWS (with a spoon)

 

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thats not how it happens... the coins get behind the drum and get stuck in the mechanisms and rollers and or pulleys that rotate the drum, none of the coins pulled from my moms dryer were in the drum, they were all outside the drum...

 

I find it interesting how much time and energy is spent on CT speculating on the different ways that coins can be damaged and/or mutilated, with this thread being only one of many. I suppose most of us had fun destroying things when we were kids and it's still fun to talk about it as adults. There's definitely a lot of variety with damaged coins. There are as many types of damage as there are people with time on their hands.

 

desertgem, posted: "From now on rather than say " a dryer coin", I will try " a coin that has had force abnormally applied in a rotational direction to its edge ( a FAARDE coin )."

Perhaps an "upset edge due to unknown mechanical manipulation."

KSorbo, posted: "I find it interesting how much time and energy is spent on CT speculating on the different ways that coins can be damaged and/or mutilated, with this thread being only one of many. I suppose most of us had fun destroying things when we were kids and it's still fun to talk about it as adults. There's definitely a lot of variety with damaged coins. There are as many types of damage as there are people with time on their hands."



Well said genius!

Fortunately, there have been and will be many curious numismatists with "time on their hands" who have the desire to seek a total understanding of all the things we see on our coins and how they happened. I thank goodness for all of them!

 

Yeah, I used IKE $ for washers for a construction project because they only cost me $1 at the bank ( no silver) whereas at the Hardware store a regular washer that size which I needed was 1.37, and I don't care what anyone thinks. I wish I would be around to see the surprise on the face whoever buys the house from my son that may one day find them.

Hey Maude, looky here at these ancient coins!! Lets Brain-Fi that coin forum to see how much they are going for!

 

How about pennies on the railroad track? I remember having fun with that as a child.

 

But I say 932 angels can dance on the head of a pin.

 

Copied from the other thread about "stamping errors.":

When the inner drum is rotating, I imagine with all that heat in about five years it would produce a "dryer coin." During those five years, the machine would make an occasional rattle sound.

Or...When the inner drum is rotating and a coin falls out (that's where this process must start if by accident) due to centrifugal forces, the coin will be on a non-moving part of the dryer. The only way an edge could get turned up is if the space between the moving drum and the outer wall is so close together that the edges of a cent are constantly abraded. Anything thicker than a cent would make noise or not fit. A dime should just lay there unaffected! I've never seen a "dryer dime" yet they must be very common. I've never seen a "dryer quarter, nickel, or half a dollar" either.

So only cents occur in a 100 (?) to one ratio? Additionally, I can see no reason to spoon that many cents unless they were done as a step to make "coin art" or to fake a mint error. BTW, most of these dryer cents have edges that look just like the upturned, machine-made (not washing machine-made) encased cents. Interesting.

 

What causes the spooned coin damage?

 

(all hail, @paddyman98)

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/dryer-coin-vs-spooned-coin.304963/#post-2888999

 

Why would anyone do this to a modern coin?

 

Boredom, making rings, to make people wonder, the list goes on...

 

Lol, fair enough. I have a 1983 Penny that looks like a spooned coin. I'll add that description to its 2x2 I put it in, lol. It's my first one I've found, but I also found a half dollar a while back that is probably another example.

 

My sister sent me a coin taken from a dryer at Larry's Appliance in Ft Smith, Ar.


Wear on a Dryer Coin depends on where it catches.

 

To drive newbie collectors NUTS when they find it in their pocket change !!

 

Dryer cats are more interesting...

 

It's a giant cat style hamster wheel.

 

I've been collecting coins for at least 2 decades, just started coin roll hunting last year, so I hadn't heard of spooned coins til just recently.

 

wares pics.