@Mark68 While the flattened rim may be indicative of a spooned coin, the mushy devices are indicative of a dryer coin. I think it is a dryer coin. Chris
Is there actually people out there that would waste time by beating the rim of a coin with a spoon? Talk about complete boredom.
I do neither. Wouldn't it be more practical though to have it done in a tumbler type of machine, such as a dryer, instead? Perhaps this was a pastime of those incarcerated before they started putting basketball courts, weight rooms, libraries and computer access in prisons.
Many dryer coins are by accident. people leave change in their pockets. Those fall out of the pockets. They bounce around the dryer for a while before finding their way into the lint trap which may or may not be there, or torn/damaged and thus fall INTO the dryer. They call between the rotating drum and the outer fixed drum. If you walk into a commercial laundrymat you can hear them all the time tumbling in the dryers. Some may just tumble which will wear the edges down, and others get stuck spinning between the drums, which you have. Of course you add on heat damage too. If you are making a ring, or just doing it for the wazoo of it, you just tap the edge. Some may tap a coin against a curb while waiting for time to pass ...
That bus must come once a year. "Grandpa made this ring coin by taping it against the curb while he was waiting for the bus to come. It only comes around once a year." How many taps would it take to turn a coin into a ring? 1.5 Billion? 980 Million? Whatever it is, not worth it, well not to me at least.
