1982 error?

Hi. I found this today. Is this an error? Weight is 2.46g slightly smaller than a 1982 cent, slightly larger than a dime. Any information appreciated. Thanks

 

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The edge has been spooned, a technique for making rings from coins. The metal has been pushed in around the edge, reducing the diameter and making the edge wider, it's beginning to roll over the tops of the letters around the edges too. Nothing special, just damaged.

 

Looks similar to spooned edges but this is actually a dryer coin.

 

I agree it is a dryer coin. Sisely, a dryer coin is own that gets loose from clothing in drying of the wash. Maybe not your doing, as they are still spendable as change. The spinning force causes the metal to slowly be moved to the edge of the coin. Some people who makes rings and other creations do use a device similar to a small dryer drum to spin them rather than tap-tap-taping them with a spoon or other instrument, but tradition requires a spoon. If not for the noise, I would throw a few in each laundry day

 

Thank you everyone for explaining. It does kind of look like you could pop the center out and make a ring out of it

 

I agree that this coin has been spooned rather than one that was caught in a dryer. If it had been caught in a dryer, you would see deformation on all of the devices on both sides in addition to the expansion of the rim.

Chris

Note: I just read a new thread that shows a good photo of a dryer coin.
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1976-lincoln-cent-error-coin.304231/

 

Some of the 1982's are zinc. The zinc weighs 2.5 grams. So the weight is not out of tolerance.

 

As mentioned, it's been 'tapped' 0n the
edges, or also called 'spooned'.

CMP9Ball correctly describes what you would
see on a Dryer coin, imo.

 

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/spooning.122825/

 

Thank you. I checked both threads and I believe spooning also as opposed to dryer.

 

I wonder what would happen if a spoon were to get caught in a dryer?

 

@Siselytyson
This is spooning by the way...

 

Well, if a coin can be spooned, maybe a spoon can be coined.

Chris

 

Nails have been 'coined',
so why not a spoon ?

 

I honestly cannot envision why a coin in a dryer would do this...dryers have baffles so the clothes will tumble, and even if they don't have baffles, the clothes wouldn't let the coin roll to do this.

 

So it baffles you?

It's actually caught between the dryer drum and the dryer wall. The coin slips in through a thin gap in the entrance of the machine.

 

Still find this hard to accept.

 

And if you are real unlucky and get too many in the gap ( needed as it is not swiss made usually) it jams and shrieks. You can't just use a knife to pry them out then, so its a tear down or time to buy a new one.. Then the 'boss' makes you empty all coins into a "cointainer" before laundry day.

 

A coin caught between the dryer drum and the wall would be abraded unless it is edge on so that it rolls. I find it hard to accept that a coin would roll to form that flanged edge. OTOH I had a student I explained "spooning" to and a few days later he showed me a ring he had made from a clad quarter...very interesting.

 

It sounds crazy and it is baffling... here is a diagram someone on CoinTalk posted one time