CAN SOMEONE TELL ME ABOUT THIS DIME. IT IS A 1999 P ROOSEVELT. THE CENTER IS SILVER AND THE OUTTER EDGE IS MUCH THICKER AND COPPER. THE WRITING ON BOTH SIDES IS DISTORTED. IT SEEMS TO BE CROWDED INTO A TO SMALL AREA. THIS IS A LINK TO THE IMAGES. THANK YOU FOR ANY INFO ANYONE MAY HAVE TO OFFER. <a href="http://s826.photobucket.com/albums/zz190/billyskantina/DIME/?action=view¤t=scan0001.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/zz190/billyskantina/DIME/scan0001.jpg" border="0" alt="1999 DIME"></a> <a href="http://s826.photobucket.com/albums/zz190/billyskantina/DIME/?action=view¤t=scan0011.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/zz190/billyskantina/DIME/scan0011.jpg" border="0" alt="1999 DIME"></a> <a href="http://s826.photobucket.com/albums/zz190/billyskantina/DIME/?action=view¤t=scan0012.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://i826.photobucket.com/albums/zz190/billyskantina/DIME/scan0012.jpg" border="0" alt="1999 DIME"></a>
Hi, Yep,,,this is a coin that was stuck in the fin of a commercial clothes dryer. We have encountered these coins many times here on this forum. While it is tough for new collectors to believe or imagine, when coins fall from peoples pockets into the dryers at a laundromat, the coins often get stuck inside the "fins" of the dryer. If you ever used a laundromat, you can sometimes hear coins clanking around as the dryer rotates. If one coin gets stuck and remains by itself for a long period of time, the edge rounds over. If the coin is stuck for a good period of time with other coins in the fin, the edges round over and the coins coming in contact with each other damages the surfaces of the obverses and reverses of each coin. You are going to hear some people offer the idea that the coin was "spooned". Forget that possibility. Coins were "spooned" as a way to fill time and make a neat souvenir years ago. (Some still do it today). A spoon could be used to tap the edge of a coin into a rounded shape. Done long enough, you can actually round the edge over to where it is wide enough to form a ring if you drill the center out of the "spooned" coin. Spooning is not generally done on clad coins since they are too hard to work with and in the case of a dime, too small to do anything with as far as making a ring. Spooning was done with old silver dollars or with old half dollars made of silver. Two other points. I have had coins like these handed to me by laundromat technicians who removed them from the dryer. AND.. there is another person on these forums that, I believe worked as an electrician who has seen these coins first hand as he worked on commercial clothes dryers professionally. The dryer coin scenario is more than a weird guess. We have first hand experience with these coins. I hope this helps, Bill
I don't know why anyone would try to make a ring with a clad dime. By the time they got the width hammered enough it would be very small, too small. Unless it was for a infant the year it was born but then the date wouldn't be there so I guess I'm just going to say again, a dryer coin.
A dryer coin?? The coin has no damage. Can you explain the writing on the coin? Is it double stamped?
Maybe you missed this in post #2; "If one coin gets stuck and remains by itself for a long period of time, the edge rounds over. If the coin is stuck for a good period of time with other coins in the fin, the edges round over"
