quarters with a copper wrapping around them?

Hello All, First so happy to have found this site and joined it. I was working at a fair in West Palm Beach Florida and we used a lot of quarters at our location. I got several quarters in several different rolled quarters from the bank and found these in them. Can anyone tell me why these where made this way? are they production mistakes? or is someone doing this for the weight difference in cashing them in. Any help would be so appreciated. Thank you in advance happy coin collecting! Michael )

 

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They are all 'spooned' coins.

You hit the edge with a spoon until it is smaller to make a ring out of it.

Apparently someone got tired and stopped

 

They look like coins that got stuck in a dryer.

 

Both answers above are good ones, but I would lean towards Frank's answer of them being quarters someone was going to make rings out of and got tired of the idea.

 

Hi Michael! Welcome to CoinTalk. Do you know there is a BORG behind you! Thanks for sharing your find. The answers given were all correct. There are a few ways that your quarters will look the way they do. The composition of the Quarter is the following - The current clad version is two layers of cupronickel, 75% copper and 25% nickel, on a core of pure copper. So what happens is that if spooned or hammered or stuck in a dryer getting spun around and around the edge will look the way yours do. We call that PMD - Post Mint Damage. They are not errors. If you go to YouTube type in rings made of coins and you will see the process.

 

And the reason I say dryer versus spooning as someone who has made multiple coin rings is that it's almost impossible to keep the edges that smooth and circular while spooning or hammering the coins. Generally the smoothing is done as the last step in the process after enough spooning and drilling through the coin has been done. While coins stuck in something spinning repeatedly will maintain that nice smooth edge like your coins show.

 

Fair enough sir and I thank you for your knowledgable post.

 

Well Damn! I was just about to grab a tacking hammer and go outside to work on some korters just to see how long it might take to achieve that effect!

 

The lazy man's way is to just go to Youtube and watch a video:

 

I agree, they look like dryer coins.

Maybe spooned, I actually tried it on a clad dime from my change a couple months ago, it looked pretty cool, I got it 2/3 the diameter of a normal dime, around the size of a half dime, actually, I forget where I placed it though.

 

I wanna make 1 of these.

 

Thank you all for the information, I found it very strange that someone would go to all that trouble to make a ring. Thank you for the video I just can't see doing all that work and destroying a coin.
ps yes that is a borg behind me. From the star trek experience at the Hilton in Los Vegas.

 

After about 10 minutes. Not as extreme as the OP's but certainly getting there in a surprisingly short period of time.

 

With the sole exception that those are 90% Silver Quarters.

 

Looks like a lot of work for an imperfect silver ring. Too, I'd probably whack my thumb a hundred times before I finished the first stage.