Perhaps This Was Owned By A Gunslinger Or Soldier

jbuck,

I decided to count the notches and there are 41 on each side. Maybe there was a method to their madness.

Could have been a soldier fighting the battle of Okinawa which lasted 82 days (1 notch per day)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa

Many bar fights have started the same way

Looking at the notches from another point of view, they remind me of something that I tried to do on a wooden dowel on day when I had nothing else better to do. I was trying to cut a rope winding to support a wood carving that I had finished. It took me a good while to get it to look right.

Anybody who has spent time on the water has seen pilings that have rope serving as a bumper knows what I'm talking about.

The only thing missing on the coin was a notch connecting them together on both facings of the coin.

(edit) When I was a kid, I knew an old guy who said that he knew some ole gunfighters when he was kid, and he always said that only a tin horn would put notches on his piece. That's why I thought of a rope binding.