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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;davidh, post: 2186649, member: 15062&quot;]<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pareidolia&amp;defid=1975897" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pareidolia&amp;defid=1975897" rel="nofollow">Pareidolia</a></p><p>Pareidolia is seeing what appears to the individual to be a figure, or form in any non-homogeneous area.</p><p><br /></p><p>A<a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=apophenia&amp;defid=527108" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=apophenia&amp;defid=527108" rel="nofollow">pophenia</a></p><p>Apophenia is the spontaneous perception of connections and meaningfulness of unrelated phenomena.</p><p><br /></p><p>These conditions come into play in our hobby by imagining that something that is visible under 10x or greater magnification is actually present and meaningful.&nbsp; Scratches, random markings or other damage appears to be doubling, mis-engraved die markings or otherwise significant.</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, when you look closely for something on your coin, you&#039;ll often find it whether it&#039;s there or not.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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