What is up with this 1899 dime?

GMan

Kinda new to all this but I have this 1899 dime which is odd. I'm not sure if it's a mint error or something done after it left the mint. The edges are rolled up but you can still see the reed marks on them and the faces of the coin are inset below the rims. These scans are the best I can do right now since my digicam is on loan to a friend. The coin is much brighter in hand and has obviously been cleaned, plus it has lots of deep scratches on both the obv and rev. I just wondered if this is some type of mint error, or someone tried to turn this into jewelry or something sometime in the past.

Cladiator

GMan

Thank you for displaying them. I had no easy way to do that at the moment.

Barndog

looks like someone took a spoon to the rims

millennium

A spooning candidate.....looks like they started it and quit.

dorkkarl

that's the "zorro" variety

K S

GMan

OK thanks guys. I'll just throw it into my oddities junk box.

BillJones

I think you can add that the coin probably spent some time in the ground. This is how corroaded silver looks.

I believe that the piece is genuine, but base metal counterfeits have this general look too, but this piece apears to be too sharp for that.

Dog97

Need a pict of the edge to know for sure. Elaborate on what's going on @ 3 & 9 oclock on the rims. If the diameter is smaller than normal you can pretty count in it being post mint damage. Spooned like everybody else said.

GMan

It is a bit smaller than a 1970 roosie I had in my desk drawer. Don't have another barber dime handy to compare it too. The dings at 3 and 9 o'clock are just dings or even cuts. I'm sure it's a spoon job like everyone else has mentioned.

GoldenEyeNumismatics

pretty scratched up. Cool though

seemyauction

I bet someone was trying to remove the rim dings........