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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 7925874, member: 24314&quot;]KBBPLL, posted: &quot;Wait, I can&#039;t remember when <font size="6">&quot;we&quot;</font> decided that. So it&#039;s dirt covering the corrosion that covers the scratches? Oops, it&#039;s newer dirt covering the new scratches used to try to erase the old corrosion, which apparently we can&#039;t see anymore because the dirt is covering them? <span style="color: #ff0000">See what I mean about how your brain works once you&#039;ve decided something?</span></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> This is how my brain or anyone with an open mind who is not ducking out of their opinion works:&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin is silver.&nbsp; Silver is an active metal.&nbsp; There was lots of end stage environmental damage on its surface.&nbsp; Therefore, follow this malarkey <b><i><span style="color: #b30000">NOT</span></i></b> going on in my mind: </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>My brain doesn&#039;t like unresolved visual imagery. Now that I&#039;ve made up my mind, evidence to the contrary is invisible. In this case, the observable fact that the corrosion crosses over the markings in many places, and a dark, &quot;old&quot; scratch, goes straight through them. Is this corrosion newer than the &quot;fresh&quot; markings? It has to be. But I ignore that, because it has to be corrosion, and I&#039;ve decided. The other element is the perception of an incuse versus raised deposit.&nbsp; I&#039;ve decided it&#039;s raised&nbsp; and I can easily perceive them as such. It&#039;s like old black and white images of moon craters - if you view them upside down, they look like mesas and not craters. Here we have an image where strong, low angle light is clearly coming from the top, and most if not all of the markings are bright at the top and shadowed below. There are other small nicks on the coin that are obviously incuse, and they are dark at the top and bright below, as they should be. </p><p><br /></p><p>Now after all of that, I&#039;ve decided that there is a raised dark corrosion deposit on the coin combined with scratches.&nbsp; Then, many of the other <b>WE&#039;s</b> suggested that rather than corrosion it may just be dark DIRT.&nbsp; I&#039;ll give them that as the coin is no longer here.&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Anyone else posting here who did not understand my reference to &quot;we?&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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