I found a reverse strike quater this morning in the collection!

Weird Optical Illusion

 

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Quater?

I don't see what you are seeing

 

It looks ocluse to me

 

Looks normal to me.

 

I know what a "quater" is, but I don't know what "reverse strike" or "ocluse" means.

 

The QUARTER, legs and branches don't look punched IN instead of risen devices?

 

I think you need to go back to bed and get a little more sleep. Lol

 

It looks like a normal struck reverse image to me.
The lighting might make it look like an incused image for a second if you look at it for a long time but then it goes back to normal. I've seen that occur on other pictures of coins.

 

Flip the lighting and it would have more of an optical illusion. I don't really see it

 

All the devices on that quarter look completely normal to me.

 

It is amazing, the stuff you think you have found. This time it is a die where the fields are incused, and the mint installed this die to strike your coin and then switched back to a regular die.

 

@cplradar, I see that too and see it often on Buffalo nickel photos. I think it is not only the lighting, but ones depth perception.

 

To me, the photograph makes the strike look incuse. I have seen this before on many other issues and it's a combination of the photograph and the viewer. I can't make this image look normal no matter how I squint. To others, the photograph shows a normal strike.

But @cplradar, do you have this coin in hand? If so, are you saying that it is incuse when you look at in person?

 

Not even with 3d specs

 

At least these are getting to be more entertaining.

 

Everyone saying this isnt an error... Was this posted in error coins? No! The OP is simply posting an optical illusion that makes the coins details look incused. Read his post. It even says "optical illusion".

 

If you found an INCUSED surface ( I think this is the word you were searching for) strike, it would more likely come from a Brockage where a coin remains in the press instead of being ejected.

The Coin in the die with raised devices then imparts an incused image (rather than the die with the incused image imparting a raised image.)

I've actually never heard of a HUB die making it's way into a production press. (The HUB die has a raised image to make the incused production dies.)

 

It is just an illusion of the picture.. (I think).

 

Thanks, I was being totally sarcastic. I know the die making process