Why do designs on coins sometimes look...

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• DIMEMAN Posts: 22,403 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 29, 2011 12:59PM

  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.

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• PerryHall Posts: 46,824 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 29, 2011 9:21PM

  Maybe it's an optical delusion?

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• ibzman350 Posts: 5,315 ✭

  April 29, 2011 9:32PM

  OK.................so I'm NOT the only one, sweet!
  
  
  
  
  
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• questor54 Posts: 1,351 ✭

  April 29, 2011 9:33PM

  A common optical illusion. Sometimes the devices on a coin can appear to be incuse when they are not.

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• llafoe Posts: 7,220 ✭✭

  April 29, 2011 9:44PM

  Are you looking at the coins through empty shot glasses?

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• Steve27 Posts: 13,275 ✭✭✭

  April 29, 2011 10:20PM

  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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• ambro51 Posts: 13,946 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 30, 2011 3:51AM

  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.

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• tahoe98 Posts: 11,388 ✭✭✭

  April 30, 2011 4:18AM

  
  ...when that happens to me i just run my fingers over it to confirm my suspicions.

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• ecichlid Posts: 1,212 ✭✭✭

  May 1, 2011 12:33PM

  I'm talking about photos only. Glad to know there are others. Perhaps we should create some sort of secret sect.

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• fcloud Posts: 12,133 ✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2011 12:38PM

  Lights and shadows sure do play some fun games.

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• coinsarefun Posts: 21,756 ✭✭✭✭✭

  May 1, 2011 12:55PM

  It's a darksider but it really is concave and looks very cool
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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