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I got a Harbor Freight vibrating tumbler at a thrift sale this summer, and finally got around to fixing it into working order, and actually using it. This type of tumbler is for dry tumbling only, so I put in some crushed walnut shell that came bagged as reptile bedding(that I also found at a thrift sale) In this media, I put a bunch of wheat pennies, shell casings, shotgun headstamps, old keys, and other odds and ends. After a total of maybe 12 hrs of on and off tumbling, some items cleaned up nice, while others need more time. One little doodad I put in there was just a small metal dome thingy I dug this summer. I didn't see any features on it, and almost tossed it out a couple times, but decided to tumble it. When I was going through the tumbled things, I picked up this dome, and was thinking it's not worth keeping, when I noticed some feature detail on the convex side. A close look revealed it was a US dime! Yes, I could see the dime features on both sides, and the reeded edge, too! I now had a smiley face; thinking back to the day in the park, when I dug my first domed coin, and that I had no idea it was a coin until now! Can't read the whole year, just 197x. No monetary value, but it is one of the little things that make this hobby fun.