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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hobo, post: 1038415, member: 11521&quot;]People used to make rings out of silver (and I guess also gold) coins. Suppose you wanted to make a ring out of a 90% silver half dollar. You would tap all around the edge with a spoon (or something similar). Over time the edge would thicken and the diameter of the coin would decrease as the edge metal moved toward the center of the coin. When the spooning was complete the center was drilled out to complete the ring. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Spooning has come to describe any action that deforms the edge of a coin as above. One common way a coin gets spooned unintentionally (or perhaps occasionally intentionally) is when the coin gets trapped in a fin inside a dryer drum and gets tumbled over and over for a long period of time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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