Start looking on edges, if you want. I was noticing in this picture, doesn't that look like the eyes from a nickel(red arrows). As Lincoln laughing I am seeing letters and I think numbers not sure. hope you see what I see let me know if you do. thank you all!
You're looking too hard to find something (anything!). The minting process is not that hard to comprehend. If you understood it, you would realize that there is nothing there other than possible marks obtained from general circulation. Chris
The copper plated zinc cents post-1982 are plated, not clad assembly like dimes, etc. , but are still struck in a collar. The collar can become deteriorated, dirty, or misaligned. The plating is probably correct thickness 99.999% of the time. But there are incidents of thin plate, thick plate, and even incomplete ( zinc exposed) plate. From the photo, the white arrows might indicate a collar, plating, or combination of both that there was not enough metal to fill the collar to make a smooth edge. It does appear to be a slight plating problem, (no value in my mind), but PMD should always be considered. My best guess Also When I teach the vision section of Anat/Physio. I stress that what the brain thinks it sees is not necessarily what information the retina is sending down the optic nerve. ( Search 'blind spot' to see an example). The brain does an equivalent of 'photoshop' and 'stacking' as it interprets what it is processing based a large amount on what it has seen before ( visual memory) and what other areas of the brain has been processing. And new inter-neuron connections can be formed so that we see 'things' we are expecting or hoping for , rather than anything that might or might not be there. There is a learning curve for everyone, so after a while a person becomes better at seeing 'new things' and the brain has other information to determine if it is really a rock smiling at you or just a geological formation. If a person is desperate to see a smiling rock, they might miss important geological formations.
About 10 years ago, I was driving to Dinosaur National Park in northwest Colorado when I spotted what looked like 10' high, fossilized mushrooms. Does this mean there were Jurassic drug dealers? Chris
Probably what did the dinosaurs in, rather than asteroid. Space Alien cartel. Hey, maybe I can get a Chris Moore type of book out of that I wonder if we could develop a Rorschach type of test for error coins such as http://theinkblot.com/ so one could know if their brain is making up visual images. If the face on Mars winks at an astronomer, should they report it?
