🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Error Coin or just a smushed coin?

[pepperj]

This listed on an auction site, though I question it's validation.

What's your take?

1880 Strike Error Indian Head cent US coin​

 

[ticndig]

looks like it was in a fire to me.

 

[Gene Mean]

looks like it was in a fire to me.

Hot enough to deform? Not questioning your answer, just looking for education.

 

[ARC]

Damaged IMO

 

[Oldrvrrat57]

IMO heat damaged! I hunt exclusively old homesites and have found several burnt coins . Not an expert! But looks heat related damage to me.

 

[pepperj]

looks like it was in a fire to me.

That was my inclination as well, been in a fire and it was damaged that way.

 

[pepperj]

IMO heat damaged! I hunt exclusively old homesites and have found several burnt coins . Not an expert! But looks heat related damage to me.

Same thought as I have dug coppers and silvers that have had a lot of heat.
Then there's the melted blobs of , then the melted glass.

 

[ArfieBoy]

Not an error coin... just a smushed one!

 

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

If I had a penny for every smushed coin I had .... oh, wait now ....

 

[l.cutler]

Just plain smashed, heat will affect the whole coin, not just part of it.

 

[Charlie P. (NY)]

What they call "post-mint damage".

 

[flyadive]

I don’t believe that was fire damage, almost looks like it had a mixture of incompatible metals. Damaged part LQQKS Aluminum To me.

 

[BigWaveDave]

Who would want that? It’ll never fit in the slot of the Whitman coin folder?

 

[unclemac]

placed on the edge of a train track