looks like a dryer coin which then experienced a whole lotta circulation after being rescued from the dryer :confused:
1964 would be 90% Silver but with environmental toning damage on the surface. And the edge was altered. Spooned.. [ATTACH] Looking at it better...
PMD. Likely a 'dryer coin'. Got stuck in a clothes dryer and was 'beaten' into having a wider/deeper 'rim'.
Someone used a buffing tool or it's a dryer coin?
Yep, that's a worn nickel. Probably a dryer coin.
The only time I could tell that a coin has been cleaned
This isn't a dryer coin but a washing machine coin. Wheat Cent It was stuck between the drum and agitator. [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
This is my only dryer coin. I still have it, thought it was an error at one point. (reverse unaffected) [IMG]
If only "dryer coin" was an attribution?!! Then we could REALLY get into it! Should I get some scope images? Maybe see if I can get it on the...
It has the look of a dryer coin but look again, the design is too perfect for a dryer coin. I like it but it’s too sharp and perfect so I think it...
That's not necessarily a dryer coin. It could of been damaged some other way. Some info.. https://www.error-ref.com/dryer-coins/ Here are many...
Just pulled this beauty out of a roll! ...May have been caught in the dryer since '76 lol. Any of you weirdos collect really sweet dryer coins?!...
Dryer coin not die cap. Not an error.
Reminds me of a dryer coin. Definitely not a mint error. Check this out: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/25c-dryer-coin-find-not-a-mint-error.360368/
Joe, service men during the war used to make rings out of coins. My dad served in the South Pacific during WW II and spent many a long hours on...
Mountain Man, I am not sure as to which stage to guess this could have happened...I was not aware of spooning damage or possibly dryer coin...
Spooned or dryer coin, but PMD either way. At what stage of the minting process did you think this could happen?
Its odd that most of the damage seems to be on the obverse side of the rim. Usually this type of coin is labeled a dryer coin or a spooning...
Not a dryer coin the rims are to perfect.I agree with grease filled die nice find but (@paddyman98).
Thank you, I guess I hadn’t even considered this for two reasons 1- I don’t know enough,2- I would have expected the reeded edge to have some...
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