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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;walterallen, post: 149700, member: 4068&quot;]Your 1953 cent is in a copper band of sorts. You could remove the banding, but if it has been spining it will have caused some damage to the edge of the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>The spooned cent from what I have been told by a long time coin dealer is that prisoners will pass time by tapping/hammering a coin as it rotates in the grip of their fingers with a spoon to make a ring. This must take forever, but I guess most prisoners have plenty of time to spoon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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