What happened to this coin?

Mystery coin, I need your input...

I bought this coin from E-Bay. It was described as a reject blank. What piqued my interest is that the reverse shows that it was supposed to be a Morgan Dollar, however the obverse is completely blank. My question is. What happened to this blank planchet?

 

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Someone must have blasted the obverse away with sandpaper or some hard abrasive material.

 

Fake???

 

What is the weight on it?

 

Or somebody in China wanted to make a few bucks selling an error coin!

 

I don't think it is fake, why spend money for a coin that is worthless?
I have heard of struck thru grease, but my question is, why did the obverse not get struck at the same time? That is my mystery.

 

That hole is what has me puzzled

 

The whole thing is a puzzle and a mystery to me...That is why I bought it. Although I did get it cheap.

 

100% the obverse has been sanded/ground/filed smooth. If the reverse has a rim from the mint, the obverse absolutely must also.

Aside from that, my first guess would be counterfeit, but that is just a guess being in that poor condition.

 

fake, one sided piece

 

This is so fake, someone trying to cast this messed up terribly.

 

I think it is fake, too!

Chris

 

Do you have a way to test the weight?

 

Fake IMHO

 

It does not look authentic.

 

fake with obverse ground off....

 

The hole is a casting bubble...

 

I recommend the OP read about the minting process in a book like "The Error Coin Encyclopedia" or "Mint Errors". The books are available from the ANA lending library. The coin depicted is rather obviously NOT a product of the US mint. (There is no process at the US mint that could make such a bogus thing IMO).

I am not familiar with the term "reject blank". My guess is that the item is a fake Morgan that has had one side removed. By extension, the piece is probably not silver or worth anything to me.

If by some weird chance, the coin started life as a real Morgan dollar, then it would be a severly damaged 90% silver dollar but don't hold your breath.

 

What is the sound of one hand clapping? That is what people are asking you to believe when they assert one side of a coin is struck while the other isn't. Its not possible to only strike one side of a coin. Could a mint make a special blank die to do so? Of course, but then you are speculating someone in the mint specially made a blank die for the obverse JUST so they could strike a one sided coin. Too many ifs in that sentence.

If that coin is real, it is a defaced and severely damaged coin worth melt. From the looks of it, though, it appears to be a badly cast fake. Since weight would prove neither, you cannot use that. I guess if you wanted to test the metal's purity on the blank side that might prove something.