What if i had a theory about how a error was made???

Adan... you need to start your very own unique thread.. with pictures.
And... there are no 1994 aluminum Cents

 

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The nickel looks like the one on the book you posted

 

Adan.. once again, you need to start your own unique separate thread!
That is not an aluminum Cent. It's somehow missing the copper layer exposing the Zinc. Most likely a damaged Cent.

 

My guess is that we could use factual history as a prime example as to why this is. Although many seem to think fake news a more recent invention, it's as old as humankind, and has been practiced in this country as much as any.

If anything, kids today had better be suspicious of any book, periodical, website, etc, etc they may stumble across, and most regretfully, the same may go for their very "teachers". Unfortunately, my friend; the boogeyman is all too often real.

 

There's plenty of fake information in books. Simply being in a book does not make something true. One of the most prolific numismatic authors of all time is flat out known to make things up.

History books are being rewritten ect. I'd actually be more suspicious of a modern book at this point not having a way to multi source verify it immediately

 

Exactly what “base” said right here - it’s plus one (+1) all the way to the moon. Numismatic publishing, AND I’LL INCLUDE WHITMAN AND KRAUSE, includes more error and outright lies than any other field I can think of while typing this post on an iPhone SE. The entire field is rife with garbage authorship and always has been. I offer to you Mr. RWB’s reputation in the U. S. District Court for Eastern Pennsylvania as evidence. Coin people IN PARTICULAR, even authors, often make up myths and present them as facts.

Further, we are now in the LEAST RELIABLE ERA EVER of publishing, RIGHT NOW, because of the loss of professional editorship and gatekeeping. Any schmo can have a website, blog, DISCUSSION BOARD SYSTEM (ahem!), and wrap himself in the vestments of believability. He can even self-publish a BOOK that is full of - - - -. There isn’t just a “fake news” problem. People are making nearly EVERYTHING up, EVEN publicly funded university researchers.

The “democratization” of media is the proximate cause of its demise.

 

Zinc, a dink a dink, a Dinka doo.

 

I can't believe I read this whole thread.

 

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Since you did, can you summarize it and tell us anything you learned?

I guess you just did.

 

Be the prescient kid on the block ... regard MOST numismatic books that way even today, unless they are first-person eye-witness accounts, or based on contemporarily recorded documentation. Otherwise, they deserve Dewey Decimal System fiction treatment.

In short, one must GO PLACES and WITNESS EVENTS or do “old school” documentary research, to be credible, not just sit at a stupid keyboard, or sit in a federal court witness box making stuff up.

 

I skipped the last four pages just to see if there is anyone left standing. Sorry to see there is.

 

Believe nothing of what you read and only a fraction of what you see with your own eyes. 2017’s unofficial creed.

 

Also this, which millennnials have no idea is correct: the extreme majority, and not by a little bit, of what is on the Internet is wrong. Most is innocently wrong, but a significant chunk is intentionally and maliciously wrong by design.

I do know this includes any post from @ErolGarip, but I’m only unsure if his stuff falls into the malice bucket or not.

 

That's actually a much bigger problem then most people realize. Entire careers and fields have been made out nonsense research and attempting to prove it better and the money just keeps flowing in as it is trying to prove what someone wants to be true

Sad but true. And they double and triple down on wrong information just because they don't ever want to say they're wrong and it seems to be more of a battle of egos a lot of the time

 

I'm glad I don't fall in that majority. Most people at my school just are a pain to be around because they don't have a care in the world about anything.

 

And after they get out in the hard, cold world, they'll expect everyone else to take care of them--and get dangerously confrontational when the rest of us refuse to do so.

 

So true. I fear for a sad future.

 

Yaaaawn.

I'm pretty sure I'll have no trouble falling asleep now.