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So a regular customer at work showed me this today, it's what appears to be a Morgan dollar coin formed into a dome shape with a peg welded to the center of the reverse. I jokingly offered her a dollar for it and she said she'd consider it. My question is, did anyone make these as a novelty thing with fake morgans, or is there a chance that it's a real coin? |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Never heard of that before. I think I'd like to see a picture, but I am sure it would just make me cringe. Since they used to be worth a dollar, it is possible that it is genuine because a fake would cost more to make than a dollar.... Do the tissue test to see if it's silver. Either way, for a buck it's an interesting novelty piece. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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There is probably a fairly good chance it is a real Morgan. As Buddy said, when I was a kid they were worth a whole dollar. And if you decided you didn't like them they were still worth a dollar as scrap silver so you couldn't lose anything.
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An update. I purchased it from her for $2, and it passes the tissue test perfectly between a morgan and ike. However looking at the edge, there's a line running around the entire coin and the reeding doesn't quite match on both sides. While I can't be sure this isn't just damage, I think the coin was instead formed in a mold making it fake. But passing the tiasue test means it's potentially a silver fake? |
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Can you take some pics ?
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I'll try to once I get home, my phone camera blurs everything.
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Alright, pictures, I apologize for blur but this is the best I can do. A tissue test, a real Morgan on the left, the Morgan knob in the center and a clad Ike to the right.  The obverse.  Reverse, the inside of the peg seems to go deeper than the outside.  The edge, the line goes all the way around it, looks like it's the seam of a mold to me.  |
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But passing the tiasue test means it's potentially a silver fake? Or silver plated. Need better pictures. From all I can tell that "seam" could also be damage from whatever process they used to dome the piece. How is the weight of the piece? |
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Can you spin it like a top?
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 United States
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I think the line was formed by whatever they held it with, to punch the coin so hard that it bent the center of the coin outward. That had to take some serious force.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The fact that is has a reverse I would say genuine Morgan. If it was a novelty handle made in a factory they would have only done the obverse.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Are you going to put it on a desk?  |
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Oh the things people do to coins! It's probably genuine. I agree with jack jeckel, that a reverse wouldn't be necessary for such a replica. Those would look great on closet doors.  |
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Alright, so since I was at the dentist today I decided to take it to the pawn shop a few buildings over. The ruling was that it's fake, as even with the peg the weight was too light to be a Morgan.
Still a nice piece for $2 though.
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Now, as stated before, it begs the question as to why a reverse if its "just a knob"
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Posted 08/22/2013 4:52 pm
