What do you think happened to this gold coin? If any of you REALLY NEED to see an image of the entire coin to make a guess , JUST THIS ONCE I will post one.
Shoot, evil shavers/biters? Full photog of the coin would be more revealing. I'm invoking my privilege Insider........
green18, posted: "Shoot, evil shavers/biters? Full photog of the coin would be more revealing. I'm invoking my privilege Insider........" No one is close yet and you had better know what caused this! The FULL IMAGE as requested:
Looks to me like someone hit the surface of the coin many times with a small tool (note the similarly shaped depressions in numerous locations) to obscure a much more serious problem with the coin. In essence, I consider the coin to be tooled.
Someone accidentally dripped a drop of acid used to determine gold purity on the coin. Ate away unevenly at the poor lady's face.