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Which US coins are examples of pareidolia?

RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Harder to pronounce than to find! (No -- nothing to do with Wally Breen)

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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,220 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Gesundheit!

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    mannie graymannie gray Posts: 7,259 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 17, 2017 2:41PM

    After looking up the word, I would say it would depend on the individual person's perception.
    I can't really think of any right now.

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    BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,977 ✭✭✭✭✭

    What, like hammer and sickle (art signature of Gilroy Roberts) that appeared on the Kennedy half dollar that set some people into a tizzy? Probably not a porper use of the term, but right now I can't think of any U.S. coin designs the fall into that category.

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    dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The "speared bison?" The "extra leaf high" and "extra leaf low" Wisconsin? The "Bugs Bunny" Franklin?

    Those came to mind pretty quickly. I'm sure there are many others.


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    TopographicOceansTopographicOceans Posts: 6,535 ✭✭✭✭

    I was hoping someone would define the term in this thread :/

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    dpooledpoole Posts: 5,940 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I had to look it up, too.

    dictionary.com/browse/pareidolia

    https://google.com/search?q=pareidolia&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwjS28KDxN7SAhXM6YMKHbZlDD0QsAQIUA&biw=1536&bih=770&dpr=1.25#spf=1


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    MrEurekaMrEureka Posts: 24,790 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not a good example, but the first thing that comes to mind is the 1795 Reeded Edge Cent. (It's a stretch to call it a reeded edge.) Which now has me wondering, has anyone ever lined up two of them to see if the "reeding" is identical from coin to coin?

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    lkeigwinlkeigwin Posts: 16,895 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 17, 2017 3:23PM

    The 1809 "experimental edges" used on capped bust half dollars.

    If you are good at spotting giraffes and rabbits in cloud formations then you'd have no trouble recognizing the XXX pattern between the words FIFTY CENTS OR A HALF DOLLAR.
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    AzurescensAzurescens Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The way expressions change on Jefferson and Roosevelt depending on their toning...

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    oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 13,248 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Not a coin but...

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Neat word.... The 'Bugs Bunny' Franklin came to mind immediately.... not quite the perfect fit, but close. Cheers, RickO

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    OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well I had to look the word up as well and perhaps not in the true meaning but in a conspiracy concept, I thought of how some thought that the designer initials on the Roosevelt Dime when it first came out had some hidden meaning to Joseph Stalin and Communism

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    OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I also heard that on a SLQ, that there is a cowboy somewhere on the obverse, I never
    could find it though.

    Steve

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    gripgrip Posts: 9,962 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Houdini came to mind.

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    RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited March 18, 2017 8:55AM

    My first thought was the New Hampshire state quarter.....

    This could make a fun exhibit at the August ANA --- "Seeing What Isn't There" or maybe "Anthropomorphic Pareidolia." (With a special award for the most-difficult-to-pronounce-exhibit-title.)

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    topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @OldEastside said:
    I also heard that on a SLQ, that there is a cowboy somewhere on the obverse, I never
    could find it though.

    Steve

    But Camels cigarettes have the naked man on the pack.


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    AzurescensAzurescens Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭✭✭

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    kazkaz Posts: 9,386 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I don't own one, but if you look at the rev. of a Bridgeport commem. upside down, it kind of looks like a shark.

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    StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭✭

    Best I can manage is the Jackass note ... the 1880 $10 US Note ... so named because the eagle on the face of the note looks just like the head of a Jackass if you turn the note upside down. Take a look for yourself:

    (images courtesy of USRareCurrency )

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    RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Good example!

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    REALGATORREALGATOR Posts: 2,705 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I bet someone has claimed to see the Virgin Mary in an artificially toned Morgan Dollar.

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    rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    That Ten Dollar note is amazing... I did not know about the eagle/jackass illusion..... Sure is blatant .... Cheers, RickO

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