Dentils is what I see/read mostly -- by a bunch.
Full pictures (obverse & reverse) of the coin are needed to render a reasonable opinion.
They look like bag/handling marks to me. Since gold is the softest coining metal, gold coins mark very easily.
Not unusual for a GSA Morgan.
IMO your question about the grade should probably be "60 or 61".
Looks like a GSA coin.
And a reasonable chance it's a 1917-1924 variety since the date is totally gone.
Somewhere close to my age. In the 70's it was the picture certificates. In the 80's I was out of it thanks to the Hunt brothers. In the 90's I got...
Nothing new, just different. They've been around for quite a while.
The slab is bogus, at least with respect to the known TPG's. Notice, no name. Crack it out and give us some good clear images.
Two possibilities: -- thin planchet -- insufficient strike pressure
I'd really like to ask people who post images like that, "Would you buy a coin from pictures like those?" Yet they expect intelligent responses.
Thanks. I'm making a note of that right now.
Oops, I had them all ready to attach and then I forgot. Here they be: [IMG] [IMG] I think it's a VS1997.
Either I didn't write it down OR forgot where I wrote it down. This coin is from the India-Princely State of Kutch. I know it's a 1941 BUT there...
The book I grab most often is the Red Book (mine is a 2018). Everything since 1964 I'm not particularly knowledgeable about so I have to check the...
Lots of KGVI heads. It probably would have looked more impressive if I had used the reverses instead. But the intent was to show the comparative...
There is at least one other Presidio. Monterey, California, has one. It's where the military language school is. Your token doesn't specify a...
Oh rats, this was supposed to be down in the World Coins Forum.
Just the relative coin size image. I've got all the single images done but don't want to make this a long post. All 1941 coins. [IMG]
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