Hello everyone, In August of 2019 I created a thread on the subject of Dryer Coins.. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/dryer-coin-damage-investigating-the-machines.344567/ There is a company in my neighborhood that repairs industrial dryers. I spoke to one of the repairmen and asked if he ever found coins damaged by the dryers. He didn't have an example since he usually threw them away. Today he saw me and told me he found one. Here is a 2001 (New York) Quarter with dryer damage on the Reverse side. I was excited to get it and to finally show one on CoinTalk. Any comments or questions welcome! Peace
Clearly you don't know what you are talking about. That is a very rare mint error. Sell it on Etsy as soon as you can!
Wow, thanks for the notice. Some coins that looked "spooned" were claimed as dryer coins, let us know if you find one of those.
My son pulled a nicely spooned dime out of the coin star the other day. I might have to shoot a photo.
Speaking of "spooned" coins, here's two I got recently. The first is a 1962 Washington Quarter with several views : This next one is unfinished. In fact, it's barely started. However, you can tell it's a Walker, but not the date. I remember, as a "preteen", my oldest brother making one from a silver half. A Franklin, I believe it was. It took him hours and hours, during every free moment, for what seemed like days on end, of him sitting backwards on a wooden kitchen chair, holding the coin on the top of one of the chair posts, between thumb and forefinger of one hand, while tapping the edge of the coin with the inside curve of the spoon. Tap and move. Tap and move. Tap and move. Until finally, the coin was both wide enough and small enough to become a ring. He drilled it out with his pocket knife, then smoothed the inside with first, a file, and then sandpaper, and there he had it, a Silver Ring fit for a King,.....or at least fit for a poor boy from the backwoods of Tennessee. How long he kept that ring, or if he even still has it, I don't know, but I do know that we had the wooden kitchen chair, with the groove worn in the top of the post, for many, many years after that, and every time I sat in that chair or saw that groove, I thought about that ring, and the effort, and the time, and the determination it took for that young man, who was my oldest brother, to persevere and finish that ring. His name is Gernie Cecil Brown. Now that's a country name.
What was surprising is that it was a 2017 D. And I couldn't leave out the two 2020's They have been rare to find in circ, even here in Denver.
Does all spooning occur by people on purpose or can there be some forms of spooning that happen by mechanical accident?
@Hookman Can I use your images in my book? I will put your real name and/or business right on the photo where I explain how these are made. I am making some revisions for the third printing of my book and would love to use them! Plus, it would be cool that your name is right on the page! ~Joe Cronin