This looks like a failed attempt at a doctored Morgan...What do you think?

mrpaseo

Edited to add the pic...lol. Quick fingers hit the return while typing the heading

Ray

Tootawl

goldrush00013

Doctored...No Butchered...Yes

dollardude

This looks like a failed attempt to create a counterfeit key date Morgan.

nankraut

He was probably trying to create a 93-S, fouled it up, got mad and sc ratched the hell out of it. (as good a guess as any, I guess).

Aethelred

OUCH!

ColonialCoinUnion

I think it is, like the 1794 starred reverse cent, the result of an idle hour at the mint.

JRocco

I hope that was done a long time ago by a kid who didn't know better, rather than an adult who should have know better.

Unimental

Failed is an understatement. Ugh.

windwhispersintrees

"Extreme Makeover" gone horribly wrong.

Conder101

Possibly a casio coin from the early 1960's when for awhile they were mutilating the dates on the silver dollars in an attempt to keep collectors from taking them home.

Shamika

"Possibly a casio coin from the early 1960's when for awhile they were mutilating the dates on the silver dollars in an attempt to keep collectors from taking them home."

Was this a common practice?

K6AZ

Looks like there was some attempt to change the date on the coin. What a mess!

docday2003

Yuck

ccr

Looks like it was made out of gray clay. Ick! I think Condor101 is right on the button. It`s a guess but, I think he maybe right.

Conder101

<< <i>Was this a common practice? >>


Briefly. It came about during the era of the growing coin shortage of the early 60's. The "official" government explaination for the shortage was that all of coin collectors were hoarding all the coins. (Roll hoarding and speculation was big in the coin market at the time.) That was the justification for the removal of the mintmarks in the 65 - 67 years, the theory being that without mintmarks, collectors would not hoard as many. The casinos version was that if the silver dollars didn't have dates then the collectors wouldn't want them and they would stay in use at the casino. Both groups completely missed to point that silver was rising and the coins were worth more as metal than as money so every time the were spent the owner was taking a loss. Dates and mintmarks had nothing to do with it. The casinos realized this pretty quickly, started having dollar sized tokens made, and hoarded all the silver dollars themselves.