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ecichlidecichlid Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭
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Why do designs on coins sometimes look concave instead of convex to me? I hope I'm not alone. I hate it. image
There is no "AT" or "NT". We only have "market acceptable" or "not market acceptable.

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  • DIMEMANDIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm glad that happens to others. I thought I might have a sight problem.

    If you look at it long enough it will go back to the way it's suppose to be.image
  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,834 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Maybe it's an optical delusion?image

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  • ibzman350ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭
    OK.................so I'm NOT the only one, sweet!





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  • questor54questor54 Posts: 1,351 ✭
    A common optical illusion. Sometimes the devices on a coin can appear to be incuse when they are not.
  • llafoellafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭
    Are you looking at the coins through empty shot glasses? image
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭
    I assume your referring to pictures of coins and not actual coins (if not get to an ophthalmologist ASAP). Most of the time it has to do with the lighting; if the coin is lit from the bottom, it tends to confuse the brain and cause the effect.
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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Every detail on a coin has be be beneath the level of the rim, or it wont stack. I dont know how that relates to your thought...but its a fact.
  • tahoe98tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

    ...when that happens to me i just run my fingers over it to confirm my suspicions. image
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  • ecichlidecichlid Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭
    I'm talking about photos only. image Glad to know there are others. Perhaps we should create some sort of secret sect.
    There is no "AT" or "NT". We only have "market acceptable" or "not market acceptable.
  • fcloudfcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭
    Lights and shadows sure do play some fun games.

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  • coinsarefuncoinsarefun Posts: 21,757 ✭✭✭✭✭
    It's a darksider but it really is concave and looks very coolimage






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