Found a fat dime. Opinions please and thank you

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The previous picture was my trying to show that the rims on the coins we're the same height off the surface of the coin. It's easiest to tell when you hold it with another dime next to it between the thumb and forefinger the top and bottom of both coins line up perfectly. I'm including the best picture I can to try and show the matching diameters.

 

When I hold up a ruler to your picture on my screen and align it with the top and bottom dimes, on the left side of the picture they exactly line up, but on the right side there is a very small but very real difference. The 2011-D has a very slightly smaller diameter. It is so slight that holding them between soft surfaces, such as your thumb and finger, would not easily reveal the difference. That's why I suggested placing three of them between hard surfaces, such a glass or smooth metal. I'm afraid the rims do not look to me to be the same height off the surfaces of the coins in any of the pictures. If you look straight down onto the coins, it is harder to tell than if you look at an angle.

 

Thanks everyone I really appreciate all of your help and for your patience with me I understand that everyone here has been doing this for a whole lot longer than me and has learned a lot in that time and I needed some knowledge dropped on me. I've been holding on to that dime and a lot of other coins (around $300 worth) for too long now I can toss it in my spend jar. I've add around $100 to my spend jar. Thanks again and I think from now on if it's not in the Cherry Picker's Guide I'll go with spendable.

 

Hey... the first half of finding an error is looking at enough coins that your subconscious says "HEY, that ain't RIGHT"

The other half is learning about how coins are minted and damaged so you can figure out what set off the subconscious.

 

I get what you're saying it's just something like that dime logic was telling me something like that couldn't happen at the mint but in the back of my head there's a little voice saying what about those coins stamped so far off center they look like 2 coins attached they couldn't fit in a coin roll but something was way off one day and they made it out so maybe a coin that was supposed to be a dime was cut out of a sheet that was meant to be used for quarters (I had some weird theories going through my damaged little brain). The thing is most of what I'm holding on to are coins I actually know are ones that will turn out to be stuff like machine doubling or won't grade higher than fine. So basically I'm sitting on a lot of face value coins. I need to be more selective in what I keep. Thanks again everyone for the advice and next time I post hopefully it will actually be something interesting.

 

Got to watch the crazy, errors will do that to you.


If a sheet of clad material was meant to be quarters but was rolled out to dime thickness and cut out as a dime - how would you tell?????

if it was rolled out to quarter thickness and cut out as a dime then it would be overweight. If it was rolled to dime thickness and cut out as a quarter it would be underweight.

Thick or thinwill show different effects from the strike.

 

That was just one of the farther out there ideas that passed through my mind when I was trying to think of why it was twice as thick as a normal dime.

 

Didn't know that.

Damn. @paddyman98. Yeah he is. Straight poop.

 

Just spoon a coin. Fill in reeding. Then check it.

 

Ok let's say I took a quarter (kept cracking my fingers using a dime) and took a spoon to it. I had 2 differences between it and my dime when I got the reeding to the point it looked the same the difference in the thickness wasn't the same I had to beat it till the reeding was long gone also on the dime the edge is flat the one I did was definitely rounded.

 

Ok

 

If your thick head. On cointalk. Does that mean your different. No. Thick headed is normal. Just dropped as a baby

 

You should never claim a coin is an error because you can't explain how it was damaged. You need to explain how the potential error could occur during the minting process.

The minting process is well documented and many of the members who responded to your question are very knowledgeable in this area. Regardless of how the rim was flattened, it is apparent that your coin could not have left the mint in that condition.

If you are interested in errors and varieties, Learning the minting and die making process will really help you spot the real ones. Hope this helps.

 

While I admit I had no idea how it could have gotten that way at the mint because I don't know all the details of the minting process I also have no clue how it would've gotten that way after it left the mint. But I figured it could have left the mint in that condition considering the fact that coins that are stamped so far off center they look like 2 coins attached together find their way out. Also for the record I wasn't dropped on my head as a baby my mom smoked drank and dropped acid when she was pregnant with me. She even gave me a tee shirt that said that. She had a great sense of humor.

 

This dime was neither damaged in a dryer or spooned. It was rolled and squeezed in the horizontal plane while trapped or placed in a mechanical device. Still post-strike damage, though.

 

I've accepted it's after the fact damage. When I posted it I did so because this is the first and only forum that I can actually respect the opinions of the members.

 

I just acquired one myself. It was left behind in a coin counting machine. It appears to be twice the thickness of a standard dime but is much smaller in diameter. All of the lettering is buried into the rim but evenly readable. Edge is very smooth and appears to be copper with a very thin stripe of silver color. 2 other coins were rejected with this one. It appears to be made with 2 planchets.

 

Did you read the thread? If you did you would understand why it looks the way it does. This thread will also give you the steps to identify your coin as Post Mint Damage.

 

It's undoubtedly a spooned coin or a dryer coin. Pics would confirm.