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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 726699, member: 4350&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>Yep,,,this is a coin that was stuck in the fin of a commercial clothes dryer.&nbsp; We have encountered these coins many times here on this forum.&nbsp; While it is tough for new collectors to believe or imagine,&nbsp; when coins fall from peoples pockets into the dryers at a laundromat,&nbsp; the coins often get stuck inside the &quot;fins&quot; of the dryer.&nbsp; If you ever used a laundromat,&nbsp; you can sometimes hear coins clanking around as the dryer rotates.</p><p><br /></p><p>If one coin gets stuck and remains by itself for a long period of time,&nbsp; the edge rounds over.&nbsp; If the coin is stuck for a good period of time with other coins in the fin,&nbsp; the edges round over and the coins coming in contact with each other damages the surfaces of the obverses and reverses of each coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>You are going to hear some people offer the idea that the coin was &quot;spooned&quot;.&nbsp; Forget that possibility.&nbsp; Coins were &quot;spooned&quot;&nbsp; as a way to fill time and make a neat souvenir years ago.&nbsp; (Some still do it today).&nbsp; A spoon could be used to tap the edge of a coin into a rounded shape.&nbsp; Done long enough,&nbsp; 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 &quot;spooned&quot; coin.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Spooning is not generally done on clad coins since they are too hard to work with and in the case of a dime,&nbsp; too small to do anything with as far as making a ring.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Spooning was done with old silver dollars or with old half dollars made of silver.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Two other points.&nbsp; I have had coins like these handed to me by laundromat technicians who removed them from the dryer.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; The dryer coin scenario is more than a weird guess.&nbsp; We have first hand experience with these coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this helps,</p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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