Need help with a damaged coin

pab1969

Hello. I am not a coin collector but I recently picked up an old US silver coin. It has a raised bump on one side and an indentation on the other. Is there anyway that I can even this bump out without causing too much surface damage to the coin? Any helpful recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

morgandollar1878

It is damaged and messing with it to try and improve the damage is not going to help it or the value, so you might as well leave it alone. If you just feel the need to play then you cant really hurt the value much more than what has already been done.

yosclimber

You can press it between two pieces of wood in a vice.
However, it will not become perfectly straight - it will still be wavy.

Small coins like this are often damaged, holed, bent, scraped, etc.
Simplest is to buy another that is not as damaged, as they are fairly inexpensive.

Lazybones

Nothing you do will make it any better and you’ll only wish you hadn’t messed with it.

JBK

As mentioned above you can try to flatten it but it will never be really acceptable or normal.

Best to make up a story, such as how you were carrying it in your pocket when a mugger shot you and the coin stopped the bullet.

Enjoy it for what it is.

Jimnight

I'd just leave it as is.

pab1969

Thank you to all for the helpful advice.

amwldcoin

Unfortunately that coin is toast!

ricko

Any effort to fix that coin will not return it to an acceptable condition. Unfortunately, that type of damage cannot be reversed. Cheers, RickO

WAYNEAS

As the Beatles sang: Let it be".
Wayne