Whats up with this???

Im not sure if a die did this or it was done by some one messing around. I wish it was in better shape. Theres a huge ridge on both sides like it was squished flat with a smaller die, any ideas?

 

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Looks like it's been spooned.

http://conecaonline.org/content/OhNo0031.htm

 

2b1ask1,coins that have been spooned,does the value go up or down? I'm guessing it goes down. I'm asking because I got a 1985 in a roll and it looked exactly like the one picture on that page. It was all flat like that. B12

 

You can "spoon" a coin yourself by simply hitting it repeatedly with a steel spoon, thus the term

 

DUH! I was thinking the term Spooned as an error! Thanks for getting that back in my head lawdogct. B12

 

Why would someone waist their time doing this to a quarter?

 

Well, they can make very cool rings out of them. Look here!!

 

Thanks for the link Becky. I've known the process (in theory) but never seen the results. Cool (though part of me shudders doing that to coins )

 

A spoon was used to do this there was an artical about making coin rings in Coin World a few months back. You would tap it out even farther then drill out the middle to make a ring