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Message:: [QUOTE="paddyman98, post: 24688526, member: 44615"]<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie92" alt=":stop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> - Pareidolia is the tendency for perception to impose a meaningful interpretation on a nebulous stimulus, usually visual, so that one sees an object, pattern, or meaning where there is none. <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia</a> There are some newbies to coin collecting and even some who have been collecting for some time who think they see images or letters & numbers on the surface of coins. They believe they were added on purpose sometime during the creation of the coin.. from hub to die to the strike <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie41" alt=":depressed:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Many of us know better of course and understand that there are planchet flaws, laminations and even Post Mint Damage that can cause these “images" Here is one of my all time favorites..I saw Superman on a Nickel on the top of the Monticello Building <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie101" alt=":woot:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> [ATTACH=full]1575308[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1575309[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1575310[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]

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