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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Hookman, post: 3271996, member: 99642&quot;]I think it&#039;s more likely the second answer.</p><p><br /></p><p>When we are looking for something that we are not too experienced at finding, and we want to find it bad enough, we start to see things that are either not really there, or, are there but they are not what we think they are.</p><p><br /></p><p>For example, let me tell you what I see in/on this coin :</p><p><br /></p><p>First, let&#039;s use the top pic only.&nbsp; Go left from the mint mark towards the window and just before you get there, go down a little. Is that the D you&#039;re talking about?</p><p>Do you see the D to the left of that one, and the D above the first one, and the D down and to the left of the first one? All told, I see 5 Ds right there, all touching or surrounding each other, or am I just imagining those Ds simply because I want to see them so badly? Is it just the coin&#039;s damage playing tricks with my imagination?</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s look further. Go straight down from those Ds to just below the edge of the building. Do you see that white dot?&nbsp; Isn&#039;t that a D surrounding that white dot?</p><p><br /></p><p>Now let&#039;s go to the O in Monticello. Down and slightly left of that O, do you see the number 5 , that&#039;s on the front of a house, that&#039;s on the edge of a dark pond, with someone sitting the middle of that dark pond?&nbsp; I do.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now let&#039;s move over to the E and R in AMERICA. What&#039;s that I see sticking out from between the E and the R? Dare I say it? <span style="color: #ff4d4d">edited - no you don&#039;t dare</span>. Farther down between the E and the R I see a hand holding up 2 fingers.</p><p>Continuing North from there to the closed part of the R , do you see that face looking back at you? And between the R and the I, do you see the &quot; Kilroy &quot; looking over the hump of the R? Continuing North to the circle of the C, do you see the block letter A when you turn your head to the left? and when you turn your head to the right, do you see the face with 2 eyes and a pointy nose looking at you?and directly above that do you see the chicken with the pointed beak looking to the right?</p><p>Now let&#039;s move directly to the rim, do you see the Petroglyphs on the edge of the coin? They look like bird tracks and other things.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now Hagen, I&#039;m not trying to make fun of you. I&#039;m merely pointing out how truly easy it is to see &quot;things&quot; in the damage on coins. Are those things really there ?</p><p>When I allow my imagination to control my vision, then Yes, I see those things.</p><p>But are they really, really there? No, I&#039;m only allowing my imagination to control my mind&#039;s interpretation of the marks from damage that <b><i>are</i></b> there.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Now, as a sidenote, let me tell you about something that really is somewhere.</p><p>Back in 1972, when I was a draftsman with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, I was responsible for preparing drawings of the Galveston Jetty beach condition surveys. Part of that drawing was to fill in the description blocks of each drafting sheet. The description blocks contained lots off letters and numbers saying which sheet was what. After my work was done, each sheet was photographed and reduced in size and combined in a book.</p><p>Just for fun, when I filled in those lettering and number blocks, I would draw in Peace signs in the letter Os and the number 0s. While the sheets were full size, you could see the Peace signs rather easily, if you knew they were there, but, once they were photographed and reduced in size, you almost had to have a magnifying glass to see them. To this day, those tiny Peace signs are still there.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now that brings us back to the present conundrum. Would mint workers purposely put tiny letter Ds on coins? Maaayyyybbbbeeee , but not likely. So how could such tiny Ds get there? Obviously they are much smaller than the actual Mint Mark D.</p><p>Did a mint worker elf with a tiny punch do that?</p><p>No, all those things are is post mint damage that our imaginations are telling us that they <i>look</i> like Ds.</p><p><br /></p><p>When you use magnification to enlarge damage on coins, it starts to look like (or our imagination tells us it looks like) things that are not really there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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