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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Tamaracian, post: 8198167, member: 23122&quot;]As [USER=110254]@FarmerBill[/USER] said--great photos!&nbsp; The &quot;marks&quot; do look somewhat like one might expect if they took a narrow file to the edge and made one light pass, but why?&nbsp; Even contemporary users of Morgan Dollars and subsequent collectors had to know that that coin was genuine; yes, in the early days of federal silver and especially gold coinage some persons actually bit into the coin to see if it was actually authentic (e.g. not gold plated lead), but that is not the case here.&nbsp; If someone wanted to remove some of the metal to accumulate for later use they more than likely would have removed much more than that little area of the Rim.&nbsp;&nbsp; IMO, a plausible explanation may be that that Reverse Rim Edge may have contacted a part of the Press Mechanism during coin ejection as the Reverse faces the Anvil Die and is exposed when the Die rises after the coin is struck and is then moved by the Ejection Slide into the Collection Bin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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