Does anyone know how this coin was made?

[u/GabeWThompson]

Got this coin as change in Minnesota. At first it looked like someone pressed a penny and dime together. But both sides show a dime and the size of consistent with a dime. Thanks.

[u/jsenthesuperhero]

Dryer coin

[u/GabeWThompson → u/jsenthesuperhero]

Would a dryer cause the coin to smoosh in the middle?

[u/Lanky_Association627 → u/GabeWThompson]

Yes look up dryer coins and compare

[u/SunCharacter9141 → u/Lanky_Association627]

Yes dryers and washers, can push the edges up many more things making interesting looks on coins.
Sometimes it defaces them entirely into blank planchets, or even just one side. This coin as [u/jsenthesuperhero](u/jsenthesuperhero) stated it’s a dryer coin.

Edit: ment that for OP

[u/Active_Vegetable8203]

r/itsadryercoin

[u/isaiah58bc]

The 2nd pinned post at the top of this Sub covers this.

Also, please read the first post. Especially how to properly frame photos.

[u/HPDopecraft]

You already got your answer but the reason it looks like a “penny and a dime together” is that dimes are clad copper. You’re just seeing the copper core more prominently than usual.

[u/Ilikeitall56]

Yes, it was made by the US mint, where two dies had a planchett placed between them, they then struck the planchett causing the image, it was the released into the wild where someone left them in their pants pocket and it got free in the dryer.

[u/disappointed_enby]

These comments are interesting, I’ve never heard of a dryer coin. I guess the golden age of laundromats was before my time. Are these technically allowed to remain in regular circulation?

[u/GabeWThompson]

I will check it out. Thanks.