what is going on with this half dollar?

any idea on this? these are the only pictures I have to work with.

 

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Reverse = plating issue?

What do the edges look like? I'd like to hope that it's an incorrect planchet, but more likely it's been ground down for some unknown reason...?

<waiting on the error experts...>

 

Acid Treated

(Chemically Treated)

 

Someone removed the outer layer. In an effort to "create" an error, or just bored with life.

 

Sorry to disagree, but the outer layer was not 'removed'.

Both layers, on both sides, were eaten away by acid.

Maybe that's a distinction without a difference, but.........

 

I agree with @Fred Weinberg on this. It's absolutely been eaten away with a chemical treatment. The appearance of the surfaces of the coin are a dead giveaway.

 

Sat in a beaker of acid. I used to do this in chem lab years ago and may still have a quarter or 2 from my "experiments" (nitric acid worked the best). They looked exactly like this half

 

If it was eaten away by acid, it has been removed. Def. #2

re·move
rəˈmo͞ov/
verb
past tense: removed; past participle: removed

1. 1.
   take (something) away or off from the position occupied.
   "Customs officials removed documents from the premises"
   • take off (clothing).
     "he sat down and quickly removed his shoes and socks"
   • dated
     change one's home or place of residence by moving to (another place).
     "he removed to Mexico and began afresh"
   • South Africanhistorical
     compel (someone) by law to move to another area.
     "a man is removed to the tribal district of his forbears"
2. 2.
   eliminate or get rid of.
   "the iron can be removed by filtration"
   
   The outer layer has been eliminated.
   The outer layer has been removed.
   
   Being eaten away by acid is not some special case where the outer layer has not been removed.

 

Except that clad layers can literally
be 'removed' if there is a split in
the edge of the cladding.That's very
different than having the outer layers
dissolved by chemicals.

As I said above, some might think
it's a distinction without a difference,
but for me only, I wouldn't say that
an acid treated coin has had the
outer layer removed. Eaten away, yes,
removed, no.

 

What's going on with it? Nothing, it's an inanimate object.

 

ok thank you everyone. it's up a little over $20 right now and they have sold others in FB.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/No-Clad-19...329699?hash=item2a98ed8663:g:YeAAAOSwttVaLBs2

 

You just scammed somebody out of their money. You knew it was worthless so you sold it anyway?

 

what???? no not me...someone else. I am not that desperate or that much of POS to do that.

 

Even the guy that sold it didn't do a scam. In the description he says it looks like an alteration not a mint error. The buyer scammed themselves.