1953 D Lincoln Wheat Cent w/an 'E' on the Obv. Rim

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1953 D Lincoln Wheat Cent w/an 'E' on the Obv. Rim

#1 Unread post by BethWV »

I have a 1953 D Lincoln Wheat cent with an 'E' on the Obverse Rim. My photos are the best I can do right now, until I get a memory card for my digital microscope. These photos were taken with my phone, all except for 1. You can see the 'E' with the naked eye, using the phone camera.
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Re: 1953 D Lincoln Wheat Cent w/an 'E' on the Obv. Rim

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Pareidolia??
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My photos suck, yes. Pareidolia?? NO. I am not imagining anything. What I see is there. Others have seen it in other groups as well. I was referred to this forum.
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Welcome to the community.
this is just a few contact marks the coin had sustained in circulation.
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Welcome

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These are well placed contact marks they look like an E to you, but it is not.
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Thank you for the replies.

I did NOT mean to post the image.
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More images doesn't change anything here and we ask that you not use a microscope for images or to look at coins. If you need a scope then it's not anything special.
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#9 Unread post by Earle42 »

1. Notice how using your camera of your microscope screen introduced lines that can easily hide details? In the link to the forum guidelines you will find a way to use your microscope pictures without needing to take a camera shot of them. That way you benefit from the magnification but clear pictures. :D


2. Possibilities when seeing extra letters on coins:

a. Pareidolia - Pareidolia is not just imagination (so hoping you did not take the suggestion as a negative). Pareidolia can be used when trying to imagine things such as when people try to find shapes in clouds. But pareidolia is the automatic and subconscious human mental tool for pattern matching. We use it every day such as when we recognize something is in groups of 2 or 3. Contact marks from circulation are responsible for a LOT of the posts we get here of people asking about extra letters...b/c the people posting are human (for the most part...we think...:sci-fi-grayalien: ... Paul's avatar says WIsconsin but...) .

b. Contact mark with another coin: Your coin's rim came into contact with another coin and had the E from the one it was impacted upon one impressed into the rim of yours. Typically this means the letter would be backwards on yours. But a letter E, if the coin was upside down compared to yours, would impress a normal looking E.

c. Dropped letter - look it up on error-ref.com - yours is not one of these.

3. Want to take better pics?

Using just a cell phone to easily take focused coin photos:

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#10 Unread post by BethWV »

Lol thank you for your kind reply. I do need a bottle cap and a book!

Back to searching for more coin treasures!
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