THE SPIDER, OWL, WEB AND WHAT SKULL?

This is one of the most commonly known "secrets" of the Dollar Bill. Hidden in the top left curve of the shield shape that surrounds the number one is a tiny deviation from the geometric web. This shape is called the spider or sometimes the Owl. It certainly does not appear to be an accident of design but a deliberate modification of the underlying web or mesh pattern

If you then examine the matching number one on the opposite side a simulation o a spider' web becomes clear. Neither the "Spider" nor the "Web" are perfect representations. This may be that to make them so would have revealed them too easily when the Bill was first being designed.

It is also said that if you rotate the image it becomes the sign of Piracy - The skull and cross bones. The more we tried to enhance the image the less it looked correct. Still, you decide for yourselves.

 

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The Spider hidden in the curve of the right side shield

The Web of the Spider radiating from behind the opposite number One

The so called Skull! Really? This feels a bit farfetched but who knows for sure