So I didn't realize this but I have two of those. The first to pics with the me holding the dimes is a 1991 D then the rest are the '68. But the '91 is the one I meant to post here are the pics for that dime. The edge is more round rather than flattened out like the '68. Is this still the same type of post mint damage on both coins?
ok that makes more sense with the roundness an it "spilling" of the edge towards the center of the dime. Thank you!
Challenge accepted!!! My kids always make wierd noses to see how long it takes for me to yell "knock it off already!" I bet they don't last a minute with that!! What is the purpose for spooning a coin like this?
Or during meditation. I knew of monks that would meditate while tapping on something for hours at a time in the Thai temple.
Honestly I thought this was a hoax. When I was 14 years old and living in Iowa (Muscatine) with my father years ago, this neighbor used to tell me about that spoon coin deal, said people pay big money for coins that have been bent around from being hit with a spoon. I had always thought he told me that just to get me to bang on the side of a coin with a spoon senselessly forever. Of course, I probably did it for about ten whole minutes because I thought it would be a way to make some money. However, soon I realized it didn't look like it made any difference. So I stopped and figured it was an old wives tale, a gag, or something like that, just to see if someone's dumb enough to actually invest time into banging on the side of a coin with a spoon.
Bored service men would "spoon" a large coin, sometimes a foreign coin depending on where they were at the time, to make rings. My father, a Seabee, did so aboard a ship in New Caledonia during WW II. He also filed a Mercury dime until only the head remained, and encased it in heart shaped clear plastic as a necklace. Trench art at its finest.
Trench art is always cool. There's a small Freedom museum here in town that has some. I go there about 2 times a year just hang the vets and hear stories. I always hang around the trench art shelf a little longer.
