Don't know, I do know I have never seen a piston wear that far in 50 hours and I know my old original from new (model release) 2159 is still pretty tidy looking outside, but has done a gazillion hours and wore a piston similar to the one you removed.
If your buddy bought it new, then you know the history- if he did not buy it new, any monkey could have been in there, fried a piston, cleaned it up a bit, found a well used secondhand piston, threw it in got it going and promptly sold it to your buddy?