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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ifthevamzarockin, post: 8248359, member: 135372&quot;][USER=11540]@ldhair[/USER]&nbsp; <i>&quot;The spots look incuse to me. I would call it frosty.&quot;</i></p><p><br /></p><p>That is what I thought I was seeing also.</p><p>I have an old PCI with the same look as this coin.</p><p>I have seen a few others like it too.</p><p>I have studied a few of these and that is why I was quick to say altered surfaces.</p><p>It would seem there was a coin doctor that was smoothing the cheek on some Morgan&#039;s and getting them to slip past PCI.</p><p>This is not an attack on PCI, this doctor was skillful with their craft.</p><p>It may have been around the same time and the same people doing the Cali Proofs.</p><p>The incuse spots are bag marks that were frosted over.</p><p>If you get some fairly bright light and turn &amp; rotate the coin you should start to see the hairlines on the cheek.&nbsp; The hairlines will be under the frost and it hides them well.&nbsp; It&#039;s kinda like one of those magic eye things where you need to look at it a bit to bring it into focus, but not to the point where it turns into numismatic pareidolia.</p><p>Notice the overall frosty look of the coin and no cartwheel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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