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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 463570, member: 66&quot;]Sorry I thought this was the part you were referring to</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And in that he is right. The damage in the fields of the obv and rev of the coin in the original post would never have been caused by someone &quot;spooning&quot; the coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I do agree with you that a clad or nickel coin can be &quot;spooned&quot;&nbsp; simply because if someone was doing it today he wouldn&#039;t use a spoon, they would use something like a small hammer.&nbsp; (You don&#039;t use a large hammer because it is to easy to hit it too hard and cause dents rather than the smooth gentle shaping of the metal.)&nbsp; That&#039;s why I see &quot;spooning&quot; as a verb meaning to tap gently along the edge.&nbsp; It has nothing to do anymore with actual spoons.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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