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Message:: [QUOTE="DownBabylon, post: 1780222, member: 56930"]Yes, this was in my grandmother's collection. She died in 1987. From the Coinstar website: "In 1989, with idea in hand, Jens interviewed supermarket shoppers as part of his grad school project. During these conversations he confirmed his suspicion: lots of people have lots of coins just sitting idle at home, not being of much value. But the process of sorting, counting and rolling the coins, and then hauling them all the way to a bank isn’t easy, isn’t convenient— it’s just too darn hard.Two years later, Jens founded Coinstar with this goal: develop an easy and convenient way for people to turn their coins into cash. Jens, along with two classmates, created a machine that could do the hard work of sorting and counting the coins. The easy part? You simply pour the coins in."You have all convinced me it's just a damaged coin, and that it doesn't really matter what it was damaged by, in terms of value. I just think it's interesting because it's so messed up. And Coinstar doesn't seem to have been what did it.Ripley seems to offer a valid explanation (Believe it or Not).  But it definitely seems to have 'spun' in something or had something spin around it even if it was being used as a spacer.Thanks again Taylor[/QUOTE]