Messed up dime

Left: Normal Dime.
Right: Messed up Dime.



What is with it. Small dime with some messed up rim and faded as heck.

 

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The picture is kind of blurry. You need to use macro or back up when taking the picture or even possibly more light.

Some one will correct me if I'm wrong. It does appear to be a dime planchet. I forget what the error is called but I don't think it's a rare error.

 

Messed up? Yes.
Error? No.

The dime was either spooned (hit with a spoon to make a ring) or a dryer coin, run thru a dryer, which makes the ends hit and makes it smaller.

And, welcome to the forum.

 

Yea that's a spooned coin , I have one in a1953 Roservelt dime no error but cool to keep.
JC

 

Interesting... just read about it. It was pretty weird thanks for letting me know why it looks so weird. I was having a lot of trouble figuring out exactly how a dime could end up like that.

Excuse me for the photo quality, that was the best picture I could get after several tries. Plus I'm new with the camera.

 

I've had tons of coins go through the dryer & that doesn't happen. And have you ever hit the coin with a spoon? That doesn't work. A hammer will! To settle that issue.... set it on top of a regular dime. If it is smaller than yeah it's post mint damaged. if it is the same size then I don't think it's post mint damaged.

 

optomon
Does your camera have a supermacro?
That is the best way to take pictures.

Good luck.

 

Well I'm pretty positive it's not a minting error and it is smaller than the normal dime. How does one spoon a dime with a hammer?

 

I used to love to spoon coins back in the day and make the coolest rings.

 

I agree ether spooned or spend a while in a Dryer

I spooned only a few 64 Quarter.but I also made ring out of my mom Silver Rogers spoon&forks handles

 

Here's a fun, grimey, 'copper-toned' 1989 D Roosevelt Dime which was found mixed in with a large quantity of Lincoln Cents for a number of years. I tend to attribute its 'toning' to exposure of the metals in the cents but I always wonder if there's not something wrong with the cladding or exposure to something else altogether.

Have fun giving some suggestions on what you think about this dime.

 

1989-d

Krispy that Dime sure has the look of a missing clad layer:kewl:

 

Thanks jello and I also did not point out that the mint mark is a bit chunky, die chips maybe?

 

let it sit in some distilled water maybe some of the grime will float off.then pat dry DO NOT Rub it!
then lets see what the new photos look like?

 

Optpmon. What year is this dime? I have one 1967 like that.

 

I'm returning to this thread with an update and some new images of my 1989-D 10¢ Roosevelt after spending a month in a 2 oz. glass jar of distilled water, from June 18th until July 24th. The water was changed once a week, so there were four rinses. It does not appear that much of the dark build up lifted off. I did NOT touch the coin with any cloth nor Q-tip nor brush. When the coin was removed from the water it was placed on a clean sheet of paper to air dry naturally.

So now I'm curious after this basic water rinse/cleaning if there are any next steps to consider. Is it worth the time to apply a coin cleaner solution of some sort (any recommends?) to remove the blackened areas to reveal just the missing clad layer or is it more desireable untouched and with this tone. I ask this about an 'error' (?) coin as I don't know what general consensus prefers in regards to eye appeal when it comes to errors or their missing clad layers. I'm indifferent especially since I don't see any potential value/premium being realised in this circulation found, 1980s era when low value metals we used and many coin production issues occured, not for this denomination and not for this type of error, if indeed it is an error. Therefore, I don't suspect that cleaning it in a solution would necessarily devalue the coin which has little to no value at this time. I'm not really looking to sell this coin and will be keeping it in an AirTite as a novelty find.

Any thoughts, suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

If were gem bu I say send it off to be graded. but it not, but it looks like it has a missing layer nice fined!

 

Yeah, it's plenty circulated. Was found in a large quantity of cents I was searching. I wouldn't waste the money on this for slabbing, but will just keep it as a fun find. Thanks jello.

 

Maybe it was tumbled with some copper coins or a dug coin that was tumbled I have some dug ones that after tumbling look like that. Ice

 

Optomon's dime -

looks spooned (terminology used for making a coin's diameter smaller by hitting it evenly all the way around with a tool resulting in a mushroomed edge)

Krispy's dime -

looks dug up from being in the ground - alot of coins that are in the ground for a period of time get that dark look - i've dug up clad coins myself with my metal detector and they are all dark like this or even darker - in the pic, is that dirt in the reeded edge ???