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Dryer coins - What is the largest you have found?

oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,213 ✭✭✭✭✭

One of my coworkers showed me an unusual coin this morning that was handed down from a relative, a Franklin Half Dollar that was put through the wringer, apparently a dryer. I have seen most of the smaller denominations, cent through quarter, but a Half Dollar is the largest I have seen.

I just thought that I would share.



I'm thinking maybe an industrial size dryer that has a larger gap between the drum and the housing. Has anyone seen a full sized Dollar, not SBA or Sacagawea dryer coin?

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,294 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't look in dryers or coinstar machines for any size coin.

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 8,975 ✭✭✭✭✭

    You know laundromat owners most likely have an eclectic assortment of goodies. Reveal thyself!

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  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

    This could also be someone's abandoned ring making project from long ago.


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  • FrazFraz Posts: 2,118 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @telephoto1 said:
    This could also be someone's abandoned ring making project from long ago.

    Looks like the one that I never drilled.

  • GaCoinGuyGaCoinGuy Posts: 2,761 ✭✭✭✭

    No pictures, but about 9 years ago, I bought a used washer/dryer set and as we were taking it off the truck to move it into the house, about 6 Kennedys and 8 Washingtons fell out of the bottom of the dryer. They were all pretty gross and nasty from being inside the bottom of the dryer, but they spent well.

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  • telephoto1telephoto1 Posts: 4,898 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Fraz said:

    @telephoto1 said:
    This could also be someone's abandoned ring making project from long ago.

    Looks like the one that I never drilled.

    Yep. We've had many like this come through over time. It has a lot of intentionally made marks and some graffiti as well, so I'm leaning more towards it being a cull Franklin that was going to be repurposed as a ring, but they quit rolling up the rim for whatever reason.


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  • jesbrokenjesbroken Posts: 10,002 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A story from my long ago past. In the late 50's friends and I noticed the local drunk always seemed to have the basic price for a half pint of bootleg liquor. Carried it like one would an infant. We followed him late one night and he went to a clothes washing place called the Wishy Washy in Lynn Garden, TN. We watched thru the glass and saw he went to the washers first and removed the agitators and sure enough pulled out change. Well there were 36 washing machines, so we raced in and started pulling the ones he had not gotten to yet and we found a couple of dollars in change, of course, we were being cussed out the whole time. There were 10 Wishy Washy's in Kingsport, TN area then and the ones we could get to we did and made out quite well most times. None we attended to had personnel at night. I was only 12 so unable to access wheels at that time, but 2 years later we did. Fun story. Never found much in dryers, so skipped them.
    Jim


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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My first job was going around collecting the change from laundromats and bringing it back to the owner's business - counting and depositing to his bank. We had a deal, he got the silver, I got the gold. You would think that was a bad deal - but silver in the machines was rare - but I found gold jewellry fairly frequently in the drum of the dryers.

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  • LakesammmanLakesammman Posts: 17,385 ✭✭✭✭✭

    When I was a student using public laundromats, we would check under the washer agitator. It was unusual to NOT find money. Don't recall dryers yielding much.

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