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<p>[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 4165557, member: 77814"]you are convincing yourself that damage looks "like" numbers and such.</p><p>but to unconvince you, you need to compare, and learn to measure height, width, and depth of each number you think you see and find one that you know is a number. they should have the same height, depth an width and be totally exactly the same in all 3 dimensions.</p><p><br /></p><p>For instance. a plating bubble will be round. If the middle starts caving in it *will* look like a 0 (zero). If you have two plating bubbles with the middles caving in next to each other then it *will* look like an 8. But if you measure out that 0 and 8 they will *not* have any similar dimension to any 0 or 8. If a "0" blister has one side that is not circular but flat, then it will *look like* a "D". One wants to convince themselves it looks like something that they want it to be.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all, where are these mysterious 0s and 8s coming from?? .. US Mint fairy dust? Aliens ? A US Mint rainbow number farting unicorn ?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1073838[/ATTACH]</p><p>isn't that a "V" on the top right ??</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1073839[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>just measure them all out and find similar ones.</p><p>of course, to do this you also have to *ignore* all the miscoloration and junk all over the coin. That is the thing, to convince oneself of something like this, one also has to convince oneself to *ignore* all the other junk, discoloration, holes and such on the coin. It's quite a convincing self-illusionment that people put themselves through to convince themselves as they want to make money (or find some weird error) so badly on the "make money on pocket change" phenomena that occurs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Clawcoins, post: 4165557, member: 77814"]you are convincing yourself that damage looks "like" numbers and such. but to unconvince you, you need to compare, and learn to measure height, width, and depth of each number you think you see and find one that you know is a number. they should have the same height, depth an width and be totally exactly the same in all 3 dimensions. For instance. a plating bubble will be round. If the middle starts caving in it *will* look like a 0 (zero). If you have two plating bubbles with the middles caving in next to each other then it *will* look like an 8. But if you measure out that 0 and 8 they will *not* have any similar dimension to any 0 or 8. If a "0" blister has one side that is not circular but flat, then it will *look like* a "D". One wants to convince themselves it looks like something that they want it to be. After all, where are these mysterious 0s and 8s coming from?? .. US Mint fairy dust? Aliens ? A US Mint rainbow number farting unicorn ? [ATTACH=full]1073838[/ATTACH] isn't that a "V" on the top right ?? [ATTACH=full]1073839[/ATTACH] just measure them all out and find similar ones. of course, to do this you also have to *ignore* all the miscoloration and junk all over the coin. That is the thing, to convince oneself of something like this, one also has to convince oneself to *ignore* all the other junk, discoloration, holes and such on the coin. It's quite a convincing self-illusionment that people put themselves through to convince themselves as they want to make money (or find some weird error) so badly on the "make money on pocket change" phenomena that occurs.[/QUOTE]
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