If it was a bezel, the dentils on the obverse should be covered as well. Here is another book that PM won't be reading..... Chris
It's set in a sterling dish as @princeofwaldo pointed out. I thought it was in some kind of plastic slab at first, but you can see it's set in a dish or ashtray or something of that sort when looking at it with this in mind.
If it is set in a dish, the dentils on the reverse should be partly exposed. The space between the legend and the dentils is too wide. Also, there appears to be a continuous line rather than dentils beneath the base of the presumed dish along the "AME" of AMERICA. If it isn't a fake, then the coin has been altered to the extent that it wouldn't get any grade at all. Chris
Not China? I think we should submit it as a world coin, and see what it comes back as--Chinese, Taiwanese, etc.
It's real, in the bottom of a chaffing dish or something like that, and heavily polished. Or at least that's how I interpreted the last post. Not sure when most of those were made, probably the 60s or 70s.