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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BooksB4Coins, post: 3110634, member: 36230&quot;]&quot;Mean&quot; comments? Sure, I can see how you may have interpreted a few this way, but I&#039;m guessing you failed to apply the same standard to your own comments. Let me tell you how threads like this usually play out: a very-new-to-the-hobby OP makes some grand claim based purely on uninitiated assumption and when someone dares to share experienced fact, the OP refuses to believe it and insists there&#039;s a conspiracy or claims others are rude/mean for not telling him/her what they want to hear. This sparks additional and often more heated comments from both sides and things generally slide downhill from there. Sounds somewhat familiar, doesn&#039;t it?</p><p><br /></p><p>Are you familiar with <i>confirmation bias</i>? If not it&#039;s the tendency to interpret new information in a way that confirms what one already believes or wants to believe instead of approaching it in an objective fashion. This, and I mean no disrespect, is exactly what you&#039;re doing and is evidenced by the fact that as soon as you read something about an &quot;engraved 30&quot; you turn around and see random anomalies on your coin as being just that; you&#039;re <i>confirming</i> your <i>bias</i>. As Mr. Weinberg already addressed, said interpretation is called pareidolia and is something that impacts each and every one of us. Have you ever seen Jesus, Muhammad, or Jerry Garcia hanging out on your morning toast or smiling back at you from a mud puddle? If not, perhaps you&#039;ve seen the Connecticut state quarter displaying the (RIP) Old Man of the Mountain? This is pareidolia and stems from the fact our brains tend to interpret random shapes as being faces and/or other familiar things. As disappointing or unpleasant as this may sound, the two addressed issues are wholly responsible for what you <i><u>think</u></i> you&#039;re seeing.</p><p><br /></p><p>A coin is what it is and this goes for every coin. Every coin will tell you all you need to know about it as long as you know how to listen, but is something that a rather unnerving percentage of people seemingly fail to understand. It&#039;s only natural to want things we own to be somehow special or unique and is why it&#039;s best to view every coin you come into contact with as of it belongs to someone else, especially someone you don&#039;t like. This can help ensure objectivity over our inherent subjectivity. </p><p><br /></p><p>The fact your coin belonged to your father should be sufficient to render it priceless to you, and in my most humble opinion is all that should matter. Consider this all food for thought.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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