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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;foundinrolls, post: 463174, member: 4350&quot;]Hi,</p><p><br /></p><p>The rationale is manifold:</p><p><br /></p><p>1) noone has ever turned up a spooned coin made of clad material.</p><p><br /></p><p>2) Nickel is much too hard a material to be spooned.&nbsp; This includes five cent coins as well as copper-nickel clad coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>If you realize how much pressure is needed to strike a coin made of such material you would conclude that &quot;spooning&quot; a coin made of these materials is a futile exercise.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>3) Coins composed of nickel or a copper-nickel clad composition, when struck, will wear out annealed, work hardened dies into a very worn state more quickly than coins made of other materials.</p><p><br /></p><p>Essentially, you would wear out the spoon before you wore out the coin.&nbsp; The process would take years if it could even be done.</p><p><br /></p><p>JeanKay,&nbsp; please show me one completed ring that was spooned from a nickel.</p><p><br /></p><p>In fact a google search for the term &quot;spooned nickel&quot; with quotes produces 0 (Zero) results.&nbsp; That&#039;s not just an image search that&#039;s the entire google search system.&nbsp; If there was one out there,&nbsp; someone would have said something about it or posted a picture of one.</p><p><br /></p><p>The story you got about spooned coins was accurate up to the point where a nickel would be used.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Why I am beating my head against the wall over this is beyond me.&nbsp; I am merely trying to educate people as to how these damaged coins came to be.&nbsp; Real spooned coins do exist that are made of silver or gold.&nbsp; Those metals are workable.&nbsp; Unless machined,&nbsp; and that is not &quot;spooned&quot;&nbsp; there is no known copper-nickel clad coin that has been turned into a ring by spooning.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>When a silver coin is in the process of being spooned,&nbsp; you don&#039;t get the kind of surface damage on the obverse and reverse portions that is like the damage caused by a coin that is tumbling with other coins in the fin of a clothes dryer for a period of time.&nbsp; That is why anyone who has ever seen both,&nbsp; spooned coins and coins that came right out of a dryer fin after having been stuck inside one for months knows what the difference in appearance is.&nbsp; It really is sooo simple.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks,</p><p>Bill[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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