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2016 Dime misprint?
I received a Dime from a customer at my yard sale and I would like to know a little more about it. its a 2016 Dime that has no groves in the sides, the dime seems bigger and maybe even a little thicker then a normal dime. Can any one tell me anything about it?! the dime on the left is a normal dime the one on the right is the one in question, I can post more photos later.
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Pictures didn't come through. If you upload them somewhere else just post a link. We know what a regular dime looks like, show us the coin in question when you can.
Welcome. Can't wait to see.
bob
ok I will see what I can do!
The double posting problem is starting to happen again which may explain the image issue. Don't be surprised if the site crashes.
No groves, commonly refered to as reeding should come as no suprise as many are used in pinball machines and whatnot.
ONLY pcgs is qualified to assess though and give a final arburtration.
Dude, do you never give up? What pinball machine do you know that takes dimes? Stop passing off your bad advice to people. And...arburtration is NOT a word.
I have been having issues posting pictures and getting pms late or out of order. Wonder whats going on...
Pictures will help answer the question just hope you are not as bad as me with photography llol
you can post pictures by dragging the image file from you computer into the text box for the "Comment"
Pinball machines fall under the coin slot arcade meca of entertainment. It could also be machanical parlor games too.
Sounds like a possible dryer coin
Coin opporated?
Pictures are necessary... the reeds could have worn off in a dryer (repeated cycles), not sure about thickness, unless it is just the edges that are wider, not the body.... could also have been a dime that someone was trying to make into a small child's ring.... Cheers, RickO
@holabrandi....Welcome aboard..... Cheers, RickO
Good theory, or it might be mint born and worth more. Is it still uncirculated looking?
Without a set of clear crisp photos/scans,
we could speculated and come up with
8 different possibilities.
We'll know exactly what you have after
we see pics of it.
Coins aren't printed...
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Still no pictures?? I guess the mystery will die here... We need a 'Cold Case' detective to investigate
There may be some obscure forensic clue left within the details of the reverse.... 
Cheers, RickO
did these ones show up?
also, I apologize it took so long! life is crazy right now! LOL
My guess is post mint damage, perhaps someone deliberately "rolled" or smushed the dime along its edge. They may have even sanded off the reeding and then rolled/smushed or whatever they did. Just my uneducated guess.
Magic magician's coin? How is the weight?
the edges have seen action outside the mint
The rim is interestingly raised higher than I would think is normal which is why I was guessing some sort of tom foolery.
That dime has been peened...much as is done to make a coin ring. I have seen many of these while I was in the Navy. Sailors, at sea, when off duty, would make coins out of silver halves, quarters and even silver dollars. They would sit for hours with a spoon and the coin, turning and hitting the edge. I never saw them do a dime, but that is the exact appearance the other coins had when shortly after beginning the process. Cheers, RickO
I agree with @ricko, When I get time I will find my silver half dollar [and spoon] that I worked on as a poor child growing up on a farm. I'll post a pic but I never finished it
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As mentioned above, it's been
what I call 'tapped'.
The edges are flat, thicker, and
smooth due to the tapping of the
coin on a hard surface.
It wasn't going to be a magician's coin.
Or a spooned coin