Morgan 1900 After Mint Error?

ok, thank you. I will look that up

I could not find anything on this type of error, or whatever it is called.
So I thought I was done after minting.

A very interesting coin, which I've been thinking about for a while now. People have been looking hard at Morgan dollars for over half a century, and some five thousand individual varieties (called VAMs) have been identified. The feature of interest shown here is, to the best of my knowledge, unknown on a 1900-P Morgan. A die gouge of this size should have been noted years ago - large as it is, it should have been visible on thousands of coins and it's precisely the kind of feature variety specialists are looking for.

That said, there are still many varieties to be found, and this could still possibly be an unknown die state of a known variety.

The date is both low and slanted by comparison to "normalcy" with Morgans, and these are relevant details for narrowing down the potential varieties. The page for 1900-P varieties at VAMworld (the central repository of VAM information) has too little detail for VAMs with this particular date orientation to attribute this coin, which is frustrating.

Frankly, at this point one can't exclude a counterfeit from the list of possibilities. This is too prominent a gouge to reasonably expect it to have gone unnoticed for this long. A prudent researcher further considers some sort of very odd postmint circummstances leading to the look of a die gouge. The fact that a line exists between the "gouge" and the stroke of the Y in LIBERTY gives me pause.

What makes this important to me as a Morgan variety lover is that, if authenticated, it instantly becomes a variety of great interest to the specialist since it bas escaped detection so long with such a prominent gouge. It bears careful looking.

Weight on a real one is 26.73 grams, although yours should be a bit light of that from wear. I don't see anything about your coin that clearly indicates it's a counterfeit; if it is, it's a good one.

Oh, great. Now we get to agree with Condor OR SuperDdave?

Gotta go with Condor on this one.

thank you everyone for the information. I am learning a lot.
it is funny, I have been looking at this coin for years. I would look at
then put it back with the other coins. Then bring it back out and look at it again.
I was never sure if this coin and the other morgan I posted were worth looking at.
Thanks again

If it was struck through an object, most likely the object stayed on the coin in that spot and fell out after it left the dies.