Morgan Dollar Error. What happened here?

CIVITAS · January 28, 2006 5:21AM

OK you error guys. What happened with this Morgan dollar to give it such an incomplete strike?

Any help is appreciated.

LALASD4 · January 28, 2006 5:52AM

I would say, struck through grease.

lordmarcovan · January 28, 2006 5:54AM

Grease would be my guess, too.

At first glance it almost looks like a worn coin that was retooled, but I realize that's not the case.

My money's on struck through grease.

CIVITAS · January 28, 2006 5:55AM

That was my first impression too. I just thought it seemed like an awful lot of grease and that maybe something else was at play here.

Thanks for the help.

coinnut86 · January 28, 2006 5:56AM

ok check out on the reverse by the right wing... what's up with that?

I found a Jeffy out of a roll yesterday with that texture all over the coin

what is it?

DorkGirl · January 28, 2006 6:05AM

The first thought I had when I saw this coin was it isn't real. It just doesn't look right to me........

CIVITAS · January 28, 2006 6:27AM

Coin is most assuredly geniune, just a very unusual strike.

errormaven · January 28, 2006 10:11AM

Something doesn't look right about it. The heavy ripples in the field and over parts of the design look too exaggerated to be the radial flow lines one associates with a late die state. Someone may have altered the coin and subsequent wear may have muted the damage. I could be wrong, of course.

Conder101 · January 28, 2006 4:56PM

Excessive wire brush polishing followed by long term carrying as a pocketpiece. The rippling and the doupling or even tripling seen on some of the legends it commonly caused by being wirebrushed by a rotary wheel. This would also weaken many of the details. Then being carried in a pocket caused additioal wear and removed many of the taletell scratches and lines left from the brushing.

errormaven · January 28, 2006 9:53PM

I've heard of the wire brush explanation, but none of these rippled coins show any scratches. I've seen a lot of rippled Lincolns, and none show scratches, even under magnification. I think someone concocted the wire brush scenrio out of thin air, and the myth spread. I suspect some other technique is being used to alter these coins.