I'll bet most of you cannot tell me what you see in this image?

You know what I see? A room full of "Moxie"!! I don't mean the beverage either...
I see a worn reeded edge. What's it to you!

 

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I see a background color similar to army green. I think I see part of the number two that Mr. Numismatist spoke of. It's two recesses to the right of the fiber. And I can't think of the name of the famous coin collector who went by the nickname "Numismatist." He was a New York lawyer in the middle and late 1800's. It's really bugging the crap out of me.

 

Only after you mentioned it...dead center.

 

The Morgan looks to me to have an added mint mark, so technically, it was struck in Philadelphia

 

This?

 

pareidolia is the word that comes to mind, eddie

 

No, this:

 

Now you spoiled it...

 

I think this looks like a 2 followed by a 1. Go ahead, tell me I'm imagining it, just try it, you'll see. I'm not crazy. I repeat, not crazy. Maybe a little drunk, but...

 

OK OK OK there are two twos and a one...

 

And there are probably more, we need higher magnification.

 

But where's Waldo?

Late to the game, but let me play:

You can precede everything here with "I see what looks to me like..."

The edge of a coin, almost horizontal, with a fiber and possibly some other debris adhering to it. The entire image is heavily color-shifted toward yellow/orange, making it hard to judge color; the coin could be silver, gold, or possibly copper/nickel.

Heavily worn vertical reeds. They appear to be evenly spaced. The reeds do not extend to either face of the coin (they appear to be worn away). Some reeds appear to have a darker and yellower tone at their center. A couple of the spaces between reeds have a similar darker/yellow tone. Some spaces between reeds have a dark deposit or toning. So does part of the upper edge. The lower edge is in shadow, so I can't see whether it has the same discoloration.

Horizontal grooves crossing multiple reeds, looking like worn file marks. They seem to be in parallel sets, but some are sloped slightly downward or upward; to the left, some are sloped more steeply from lower-left toward upper-right. One prominent but short groove is at the center of the photo, angled at perhaps 30 degrees clockwise from vertical, unlike all the other grooves.

Lastly, it looks like there might be a bend in the coin; the leftmost part seems horizontal, but most of the edge is tipped slightly counterclockwise from horizontal. This might be an artifact of the camera setup.

 

Wow, I'm impressed!

 

At the waste of time?

 

cynical, cynical, cynical...

 

Isn't there an S right before the 21 that Eddie sees? And when is the next time you get your blinders and blanket? There is a good cold and some snow heading east..

 

"I see what looks to me like...
Scrap Gold

 

I promise I'll still complete all my assigned duties here on time as well.

 

lol

 

I see what looks like die polish marks on the edge. I would guess they are due to filing but am curious how one would have extended into the reeding (the 4th dark reed from the left).