Dime Sized Penny

I found this penny the other day. It is smaller than a regular penny. It fits inside of a regular penny's rim. It's actually the same size as a dime. It is perfectly round and doesn't appear to be rubbed down on any sides. As a matter of the rim is taller than a regular penny.
Any thoughts on why or what this is worth?

 

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pictures - front and rear & side, in focus ?

what material is it made of. There was many games and stuff that used look alike US money in different sizes.

 

Dryer coin

 

Look at the rim of that cent. It is pushed in, rolled up, what ever you want to call it. So it's not as wide as a regular cent. Look at the space between the words on your regular cent and the other one - no space, you can see the raised rim pushed in.

aka .. Damage from probably commercial dryer as mentioned.

 

Or spooned.

 

Copper

 

So it just rolled around in a dryer and became perfectly round and smaller? Im not being sarcastic its just hard to believe.

 

Correct. Stuck in a commercial dryer. We see these on the forum fairly frequently.

 

based on the smoothness of the other design elements, I would lean toward dryer coin instead of spooned.

 

Essentially its the same process though. Just different tools.

 

Yeah but the heat from the dryer will distort the other parts of the design, especially with zincolns, unlike spooning.

 

You're right, heat is an added effect.

 

I seriously doubt the heat in a dryer has any effect unless your dryer gets up to at least several hundred degrees.

 

Here you go.. Some Information on Dryer Coins -
http://www.error-ref.com/dryer-coins/

 

Its the constant heat and tumbling that does it.

 

First, welcome to the neighborhood, Chuck!

Yes, we have seen both of these methods of post-mint damage (PMD) hundreds of times. As a rule when the details of the strike are pretty clear and only the rim is altered, it can be assumed that the coin has been spooned. (Do a Google search for more information and photos.) However, when the details of the strike are "muddled" as is the case with your coin, it is safe to assume that it is a coin that was caught within the tumbler mechanism of a dryer and the heat has affected the appearance.

Chris

 

Yes, it is hard to believe unless you have studied the situation; unless you have seen it yourself. Maybe go find a friend that works on commercial dryers and ask him about money found between the drums

here is a good thread about it, showing examples with much discussion => https://www.cointalk.com/threads/dryer-coin-vs-spooned-coin.304963/


Also, you probably have not detailed *how* this can happen in a dryer by simply stating that "it's hard to believe". You're probably guessing that it fell out of a pocket and tumbled around with the clothes INSIDE of the drum with the clothes? We're not talking about that though .... they can tumble around and sooner or later gets past the lint filter in between the drums.

Such as this post from https://www.cointalk.com/threads/1966-quarter.320371/#post-3140681



Welcome to CoinTalk.

 

Thanks for all of your help.

 

just remember, what can happen to a coin, aka damage is *unlimited*, beyond our comprehension.

Real Errors are limited and can be figured out based on the minting process.

Damage sometimes can't really be explained because if we didn't cause it, then we're just guessing. When you start seeing more and more various examples of about the same thing then one can put 1+1 together and figure some of the stuff out.

 

Dryer coin as explained above. PMD.