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<p>[QUOTE="lawdogct, post: 76118, member: 1476"]This is sometimes referred to as a "spooned" coin. If you have the spare time, and patience, you can get a pre-1982 lincoln to look the same by tapping it with a steel spoon repeatedly. Supposedly the goal was to turn the coin into a ring by drilling out the center once the rim had been sufficiently thickened.</p><p><br /></p><p>The most common way that coins end up this way though is industrial washing machines.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="lawdogct, post: 76118, member: 1476"]This is sometimes referred to as a "spooned" coin. If you have the spare time, and patience, you can get a pre-1982 lincoln to look the same by tapping it with a steel spoon repeatedly. Supposedly the goal was to turn the coin into a ring by drilling out the center once the rim had been sufficiently thickened. The most common way that coins end up this way though is industrial washing machines.[/QUOTE]
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