Impossible mint mark

I knpw it is in bad taste to discuss a coin that is in an active auction. I also know that what I am seeing has absolutely no chance of being real. Yet, if you look closely under the last "E" in DIME on the reverse of this PCGS 35 1857 I Repeat 1857 Dime. There is a CC, Carson City mintmark and it doesn't look pmd. James

 

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I see an 8 on its side. Or maybe Dumbo.

I think this is a case of pareidolia, not a clumsy fake with an impossible mintmark that somehow slipped by both PCGS and Great Collections.

 

I definitely see what you're talking about, and yeah it looks like a CC

 

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I can kind of see the sideways 8, too, but either way it's very strange

 

I in no way claim it is an actual CC mintmark. I just can't unsee what i see. James