What is this?????????

FishtailApple12

Part of a loose collection I inherited, I found a dime that is smaller than a normal dime, thicker on the rim, but the same size in the center, because the rim is protruding. Someone please explain. Here are all of the images.

WilliamF

@Weiss said:
Post Mint Damage (PMD).
Someone was tapping it with a spoon, or something harder. It was a common activity in the era of silver coins, in an effort to make the coin wide enough to form the foundation of a silver ring.

@FishtailApple12 said:
Who put this in as answered, nothing has been answered here guys

This is the correct answer, if you are in the hobby long enough you will eventually have seen more of these than you can count.

Weiss

Post Mint Damage (PMD).
Someone was tapping it with a spoon, or something harder. It was a common activity in the era of silver coins, in an effort to make the coin wide enough to form the foundation of a silver ring.

FishtailApple12

@Weiss said:
Post Mint Damage (PMD).
Someone was tapping it with a spoon, or something harder. It was a common activity in the era of silver coins, in an effort to make the coin wide enough to form the foundation of a silver ring.

It is not silver, it is thicker than a regular dime, and it doesn’t have a rigid rim. I don’t think that is the case

FishtailApple12

Who put this in as answered, nothing has been answered here guys

ifthevamzarockin

PMD

FishtailApple12

@ifthevamzarockin said:
PMD

Could someone explain more than a “using a spoon”….

MasonG

@FishtailApple12 said:

@Weiss said:
Post Mint Damage (PMD).
Someone was tapping it with a spoon, or something harder. It was a common activity in the era of silver coins, in an effort to make the coin wide enough to form the foundation of a silver ring.

It is not silver, it is thicker than a regular dime, and it doesn’t have a rigid rim. I don’t think that is the case

You can tap a non-silver coin with a spoon, too. And it will make the rim thicker, just like if it was silver.

MasonG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSsHWJr5DS0

ifthevamzarockin

Use can use a spoon or hammer.

Google how to make a ring from a coin.

https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+make+a+ring+from+a+quarter&rlz=1C1CHBD_enUS867US867&oq=how+to+make+a+ring+from+&aqs=chrome.4.69i57j0i512l9.21188j0j15&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#kpvalbx=_E_r6Yv3mNbjakPIP3e2gkAE20

FishtailApple12

Why would someone do that though. I understand now i just don’t know why someone just tapped it with a spoon and didn’t even make a ring out of it

FredWeinberg

Damaged after it left the Mint, as noted above by numerous posters

FredWeinberg

Damaged after it left the Mint, as noted above by numerous posters

MasonG

@FishtailApple12 said:
Why would someone do that though. I understand now i just don’t know why someone just tapped it with a spoon and didn’t even make a ring out of it

Because they just spent a couple of hours on it so far and realized they didn't want to finish.

WilliamF

@FishtailApple12 said:
Why would someone do that though. I understand now i just don’t know why someone just tapped it with a spoon and didn’t even make a ring out of it

They probably realized a dime just wasn't going to cut it and moved on to a bigger coin... ?

MasonG

@WilliamF said:

@FishtailApple12 said:
Why would someone do that though. I understand now i just don’t know why someone just tapped it with a spoon and didn’t even make a ring out of it

They probably realized a dime just wasn't going to cut it and moved on to a bigger coin... ?

That, too.

JBK

A lot of these "spooned" coins might axtually have been caught in a rotating machine such as a dryer.

Either way, it's post mint damage.

As for the "answered" notation on the second post, the OP set up the thread as a question so the next post is considered the answer.

WilliamF

@JBK said:
A lot of these "spooned" coins might axtually have been caught in a rotating machine such as a dryer.

Either way, it's post mint damage.

As for the "answered" notation on the second post, the OP set up the thread as a question so the next post is considered the answer.

I think it was actually marked as the answer by the OP, my post was 6 or 7 down the line until it was marked as the answer.
Although actually it was @Weiss who had the right answer, I just quoted it in mine

Oldhoopster

Sometimes a coin like this can get stuck between a commercial dryer drum and outer wall. The tumbling can also cause this effect on a coin. They are called dryer coins.

Here is the explanation from the errors-ref site. Don't forget to click on the link embedded in that explanation

https://www.error-ref.com/?s=Dryer+coin

jmlanzaf

@FishtailApple12 said:

@Weiss said:
Post Mint Damage (PMD).
Someone was tapping it with a spoon, or something harder. It was a common activity in the era of silver coins, in an effort to make the coin wide enough to form the foundation of a silver ring.

It is not silver, it is thicker than a regular dime, and it doesn’t have a rigid rim. I don’t think that is the case

That is exactly the case. Historically it was done to make rings but it doesn't have to be done for that reason. By your own description that is exactly what happened: regular thickness in the middle, smaller diameter, thicker near the rim. Dinnertime intentionally pushed up the material from the outer edge which raised the outside edge while simultaneously decreasing the diameter.

You can Google video of it.

https://youtu.be/TAHtui3QvZE

ricko

Used to see this frequently when I was in the Navy. Guys would be tap tap tapping away in spare time to make rings... for kids usually. Cheers, RickO

CommemDude