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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 7407383, member: 27832&quot;]I think the random texture on that surface contains enough detail to let someone see all <i>kinds</i> of patterns, images, or symbols.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t spent much time at all studying ancient artifacts, but it seems surprising that something that old would have a symbol struck in <i>relief</i> rather than incuse. The feature you point out is clearly in relief. It looks like it has about the same <i>amount</i> of relief as other features on the surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>Full disclosure: I&#039;m probably biased because of all the posts I&#039;ve seen to the Error Coins forum, where people pick up a pavement-damaged modern coin and convince themselves that they see out-of-place letters, hints of an overstruck coin&#039;s design, or the ever-popular &quot;doubling&quot;. I don&#039;t know whether the skepticism I&#039;ve nurtured there is appropriate here. But based on what I know about visual perception (which I <i>have</i> studied a bit), I suspect the symbols are more in our minds than on the object&#039;s surface.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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