Any guesses as to what happened here?

danglen

This coin has a real good story behind it...but I'll read what your opinions are before I reveal the details

RGL

Don't have a clue ... was going to say it had been peppered with shotgun pellets, but neither side is concave.

MastaHanky

You honestly have me baffled with this one, as the lumps appear raised on BOTH sides, and it doesn't look like they were pushed out from either side.

airplanenut

Butt beads are mysterious...

MrLee

Looks like it was cut in two and hammered out for some unknown reason.

mbbiker

, i have no clue what happened but i would love to know.

gmarguli

Fire damage.

ccr

<< <i>Looks like it was cut in two and hammered out for some unknown reason >>



I don`t know either and that`s a good guess. Maybe an opium box?

This maybe far-fetched but, Was it in a fire?

Loki

Maybe used as a shim between a leg of a heavy object and a hard porous floor?

Dog97

Looks like a really bad counterfeit experment that didn't work.

Placid

Someone tried to shrink it.

MadMarty

At least it's not a CC!!!! Looks like some one used it to shim up a freezer!!!

JR

Someone welded on it possibly. I could take a coin like that one (pre-alteration), and weld some metal rod to the surfaces of the coin, and get a similar effect as being seen in this coin's photos. I say the coin was Tig welded to cause the altered and built up surfaces on both the Obv and Rev. That's my best guess.

danglen

My home is in Flagler County, Florida. A couple of years ago, the entire county underwent a total mandatory evacuation because of raging forest fires. Many homes burned to the ground. This Morgan was in one of those homes. When the temperatures got high enough, the silver started bubbling. When the fires went out, the coin cooled, and the bubbles hardened.

This and other coins were purchased from a guy whose house didn't make it. But the story has a happy ending. The man I bought it from was a widower, and fell in love with the lady the insurance company sent out to adjust the claim. They were married a short time later and moved to North Carolina.

I carry this coin around in my pocket as a good luck charm, and because of the heat it went through, it really has a super bell-like tonal quality. To Greg, good call!

nwcs

CHOLERA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!

Run for your lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1jester

Dang, I thought it was LordMarcovan's unsuccessful attempt to drill holes in it for his vest.

coppercoins

It looks to me like a coin that has been through a fire, just as gmarguli stated earlier. Extreme heat can do some odd things to coins, depending onthe amount of heat and the coin's proximity to it.