Coin Authentication

=> 100%

=> well, maybe not 100% (but I do have a guy that has a high-enough batting average to make me smile ear-to-ear when he says my targets look authentic)



... but yup, it definitely will be an opportunity for somebody to try and fill Sear's shoes, eh? (interesting)

 

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These posts from those who stumble upon this section makes me wish our list of emojis included the Word of the Year. I have to admit that I would read it as 'Laughed until I cried' but it is obvious from the other choices that Oxford is ahead of me in so many ways.
http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2015/11/word-of-the-year-2015-emoji/

 

If you'd been buried for two thousand years, you might need a bath too.

 

It has been some time since we had a thread that brought this to light but I said here that if I were granted a Super Power it would be to see the entire life if each of our coins from being made - to being hoarded - to being found - to being cleaned - to being collected, sold and resold. Part of it would just be interesting while another part would disclose fakes, tooling and quite a number of things now mysterious. I wonder what the world record is for a coin being saved in a sock drawer in conditions it does not even require dusting. Is there a single ancient coin that has never been cleaned? I know there are some that were cleaned a couple hundred years ago but tat is 10% of its life. I can't remember how this came up before but a bath every couple thousand years seems within reason.

 

I love this post, Doug. I picture a time lapse video of perhaps 2 minutes for 2000 years. So cool!