Per 
Jimbo Jambo's guide to writing his own article
What is it? A gold coin that goes unnoticed by people in direct contact with it. The idea is that it might have been a mystical method of hiding treasure in plain sight that no longer works well in the modern world.
What is the focus? The meat of this article will be in the experiment/test logs. The description should be boiled down as much as possible.
What feeling is it meant to evoke? Satisfaction? It's meant to scratch a certain itch that too often goes unscratched for me in modern media. Magical abilities rarely have their wider implications explored. What if the person who touches the McGuffin is wearing gloves? Does the ritual count as being performed under a full moon if the light of the moon is reflected with a series of mirrors? What happens if the thing that must never be touched gets sneezed on, or if a stray piece of hair lands on it? If you teleport somewhere, what happens to the air and dust at your destination? (What, Nightcrawler, you're afraid of getting stuck in a rock but you're fine with every blood vessel in your body suddenly filling with air?) What exactly are the conditions of this thing?
What problems might this article have? The article goes to great length to explain something that is secondary to the narrative in other articles. Consider SCP-5190; instances of this SCP subject have pretty much the same properties of this coin at a certain stage in their development, but nobody reading really cares exactly how it works, they're just interested in what comes next. Is this explanation porn?
CAPTION-GOES-HERE
Item #: SCP-suchandsuch
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Prodecures: SCP-suchandsuch should be kept in a transparent coin case when not being tested. Because SCP-suchandsuch cannot be directly seen or felt, any handling should be done with the aid of a digital video recording device.
Description: SCP-suchandsuch is a gold Spanish escudo coin ("doubloon" or "piece of eight") with heavily weathered edges, scratches on the surface, and dark discoloration in some of the recesses due to algal and mineral growth. It is roughly circular, approximately 28mm in diameter, and weighs 6.67 grams. The printed minting date is illegible due to wear, but the design suggests 16th or 17th century.
SCP-suchandsuch cannot be consciously perceived through any unaided human sense. Observers are physically able to see and feel the object, and will adjust their behavior to accommodate it if necessary, but deny having any awareness of it and will confabulate or invent erroneous reasons for their actions. The effect of SCP-suchandsuch is similar to "blindsight," a phenomenon in which a sighted person has no conscious awareness of their ability to see, often claiming to be blind, but is able to reflexively react to visual stimuli and avoid obstacles when walking.
SCP-suchandsuch's ability to elude awareness appears only to affect direct observation, while indirect or second-hand methods appear unaffected and can be used to interact with it. This includes electronic methods, such as viewing it through a digital camera, and mechanical ones, such as weighing it on a balance.
Discovery: <Keep it concise, decide if it's even worth having. People might be interested to know how something that can't be seen was found.>
Experiment log: ####-01
In this series of experiments, Class-D subjects are given a box with 20 small items of varying composition and value, including SCP-suchandsuch. subjects are instructed to place items from the box on a table in various arrangements.
This is a follow-up to preliminary testing which showed that persons affected by SCP-suchandsuch maintain an awareness of its location in space. The focus of this set of experiments is to determine the extent of knowledge viewers subconsciously have of the object.
Experiment ####-01-A:
Subjects are asked to remove items from the box one at a time and place them on the table in no particular order.
Results: Subjects are consistently able to handle and place each item with the exception of SCP-suchandsuch. When told that an item remained in the box, subjects denied being able to see it, even after being given ample time to investigate the box. In all cases, SCP-suchandsuch ended up on the floor of the research area when subjects inevitably turned the box upside-down during their investigation.
Experiment ####-01-B:
SCP-suchandsuch is placed on the table beforehand by researchers, along with a number of the other items from the box. Subjects are then asked to remove items from the box and group them on the table by criteria such as material, color, and assumed value. Subjects are told that some groups have already been started, and to place any similar items with them.
Results: In 80% of the trials, subjects grouped items similar to SCP-suchandsuch together with it. When asked why they chose that location, subjects did not acknowledge that there was already an item from that group on the table, and instead gave vague answers such as, "It felt right," or, "It was as good a place as any."
Subjects appear to have some subconscious knowledge of SCP-suchandsuch's appearance in addition to its location.
Experiment log: ####-02
This series of experiments involves a researcher administering the test and a subject sitting opposite each other at a table; on the table is a foam board roughly a meter long which sits upright so that it blocks the view of the other side of the table. Holes roughly the size of SCP-suchandsuch have been cut into the board and are marked on both sides with green circles. SCP-suchandsuch is pushed into one of the holes so that it completely fills the hole blocks the view of the other side. The researcher will then hold up flash cards with letters or numbers on them in front of the holes, and subjects are asked to identify the character.
The goal of this series of experiments is to determine what information, if any, SCP-suchandsuch transmits to the viewer, or if the information obscured by SCP-suchandsuch is fabricated entirely by the mind of the viewer.
Experiment ####-02-A:
Five holes have been cut horizontally into the foam, one of which holds SCP-suchandsuch. To ensure impartiality, the test administrator is not told which hole holds the object, what is on the face of each flash card.
Subjects are first asked to describe the foam board, after which the researcher will begin holding cards up to the holes and recording answers given by the subject.
Results: Subjects describe a white foam board with five holes, and claim to be able to see through all of them.
All subjects were able to correctly to correctly identify the symbols on each card with the exception of any card blocked by SCP-suchandsuch, for which subjects usually did not have a correct answer.1
Subjects spent an average of three times longer looking at the blocked space before giving an answer. 45% of subjects gave an answer with a high degree of confidence or became confident after thinking about their answer; 50% described not being able to see the symbol clearly and offered guesses with a medium or low degree of confidence; 5% said they could not see the symbols clearly an opted to give no conclusive answer.
Experiment ####-02-B:
11 holes are cut into the foam in a seemingly random arrangement. Five of the holes are marked with a green circle on the subject's side and six are not, including the hole containing SCP-suchandsuch. All holes are marked on the side of the researcher for convenience.Results: Subjects who were asked to describe the setup clearly saw and were able to point out all five marked holes and each of the five unobstructed holes with no marking. No subject identified the hole with SCP-suchandsuch, and none indicated that they saw anything unusual on the rest of the foam board.
Results were concurrent with the previous series of tests in that subjects were consistently able to identify each symbol with, the exception of those held in front of SCP-suchandsuch, which participants did not claim to be able to see.
Conclusion of experiments 01 and 02:
SCP-suchandsuch does not appear to communicate any information about the area it blocks to the viewer. When given no cues as to what should be expected, viewers simply see SCP-suchandsuch as part of whatever surface it sits on; only when they are able to follow a pattern or told what to expect do viewers report seeing anything else. Although subjects claimed to be able to see through the SCP-suchandsuch, testing indicates that they did not have any factual knowledge about what was on the other side.Instead if seeing a conspicuous hole in their visual field, viewers' brains appear to fill in the missing data with whatever they expect to be there, similar to what happens for human blindspots and other anomalies that block a small portion of the viewer's field of view.
Experiment log: ####-03
This series of experiments focuses on tactile and auditory sensations caused by contact with SCP-suchandsuch.SCP-suchandsuch is mounted on the ceiling with a mechanical grasper. A Class-D personnel sits directly under the grasper, which is then opened remotely by researchers to allow SCP-suchandsuch to fall onto the head of the subject.
Results:
Upon being struck in the head by SCP-suchandsuch, subject immediately reacted with anger and confusion. Brrrrrbrbrbrr smiktty smak.Conclusion:
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