I dumped a bunch of change into the coin machine at the bank and it kicked this quarter out. It feels heavier and wider in the hand and comparing it to another quarter it is definitely thicker to the eye.
Definitely looks stamped that way, I could never hammer something so precisely. Holds no real value to me as my only interests are antique foreign and domestic coins. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't worth more than $.25 to someone before I spent it.
Another spooned coin. Hold the coin between finger and thumb, then strike along the edge with a spoon to flatten it down. Eventually it gets wider and wider and then you drill out the center, file it, sand it, and you have a ring. Silver is usually used for this, but some people try it with modern quarters and realize it's way too much work.
Spoon? How about using a small tack hammer instead. It shortens the work time but accomplishes the same thing.
Chances are it's an early-stage dryer coin. Kids aren't that bored any more and convicts no longer use cash most places. We know no Mint process could create it.
The only way I could see a dryer doing something like this is if the coin was on it's edge rolling in the drum as the dryer spins (even then I doubt it) BUT, every dryer I've ever seen has those ridges to keep the clothes from just sliding along the drum, so, a coin wouldn't be able to roll inside the drum as it spins. Tell me how a dryer would do something like this? It was pounded, probably with a spoon. I'm starting to think that this whole "dryer coin" thing is a joke that someone made up after pounding a coin and having someone ask how it got that way. "Clothes dryer."
The weight of a ton of evidence - I've probably seen hundreds of different ones over the years, just in the fora where I participate - and the folks who have recovered them themselves - tends to govern my view of the thing. Too many similar coins, too strong a history of progression shown in too many examples to deny that some regular phenomenon doesn't exist. Contemplate how long it takes to spoon a late-stage coin. Years, and we've seen dozens upon dozens. Yet, with the perseverence that would indicate, we see very few completed rings as a result. Makes no sense to stop the job at 80%. I don't believe this stuff to be that manually-generated, although I'd cheerfully listen to an alternate machine theory to a dryer.
See how the ridge or the reeds of the Quarter is flattened out? Hammered You can see it clearly on your 2nd and 3rd picture
Not all worn reeding is cause from spooning . I've been to a lot of coin show and don't forget about slot machine . They can cause the same effect ....
I just moved after twenty years in Atlantic City, where such quarters are still commonplace in circulation years after the casinos went paper-only. They're worn with almost mechanical precision from the outside in, but do not expand at the rim.
I don't see any of the "reeding" that should be there,you? This means the edge was pounded down until smooth somehow....
You have to consider that coins become thinner the longer they are in ordinary. circulation. I've noticed this when I try to roll culls: the height of the roll is noticeably shorter.
The edges on that coin are pushed up (widened), meaning it was pounded. Either with a spoon or small hammer.
