Nevermind I tried to get a answer but too much sarcasm for me

@roy pho

May I ask you a serious question ? If, before any other posts were made, I had responded and answered your question and simply said - No it is not a Proof, it is just an ordinary business strike - what would your response to my post have been ? Honestly now, what would your response have been ?

Would you have just accepted that answer and dropped the whole thing ? Or would you have continued posting and disputed and/or questioned my response ?

Now you may or may not understand why I am asking you this, so I'll tell you. It's to help you understand why you got answers like you did, why the sarcasm was there.

You see Roy, questions similar to yours are the single most common type question asked on this forum. And it has been the single most common type of question ever since the forum was first created going on 16 years ago. These type of questions are posted every single day, often several times a day. And the result is typically the same. The question gets answered and the answer is almost always the same - no, the coin is not what you think it might be. Which the original poster, the person who asked the question, either disputes the answer outright or questions it like they doubt the validity of the answer they are given.

So imagine now that has happened literally thousands of times, the same scenario repeats itself over and over and over again. Now imagine you are the one trying to answer the questions. And every time you did answer, the person who asked the question argued with you about it. Would not at least a hint of sarcasm enter into your response ?

There's two things at play Roy, two things involved. One is people like you asking what they see as simply an honest question. And they ask it because for whatever reason they think they might have really found something. And they want to believe they really found something. I get that, everybody gets that ! Everybody understands that feeling because in most cases at one time or another in their lives they've experienced it too, or at the least something similar.

The other thing that's involved is the people answering the question. And they know that 99.99% of time the answer is - no, it is not what you think it is, it is not valuable. But every time they tell somebody that the person argues with them about it, certain, or almost certain, in their belief that it really is valuable and the person telling them no it isn't is wrong.

After a while, that just kind of wears on people. It gets old, they get tired of it. And so when they give answers sarcasm creeps into the answers they give. That's understandable, isn't it ? And then the people like you, well they don't like the sarcasm. And yes, that's understandable too. But is human nature, on both sides.

So now do you understand why I asked you the question I did when I started this response ? And why the answer to that question is so important ?

Roy, over the years, and I've been here since the beginning, I've also answered the questions, and without the sarcasm. And done it a thousand times. But even though I do it that way, the response I get from the person asking the question is almost always the same - they argue with me and tell me I'm wrong.

My purpose in posting all of this is for both sides, the questioner, and those giving the answer. I understand both sides - I get it. And I think a lot of the rest of you get it too. But it is what it is, and I also get that.

You said above Roy that a lot of your questions on this forum didn't get answered. Well, maybe they didn't, but maybe they did, and you just didn't get the answer you wanted. Or you didn't think it was a complete enough answer. I honestly don't know. What I do know is that it is pretty rare for a question to get asked and not be answered. And usually answered correctly.

One last thing Roy, yes, it is possible for people to find that truly rare coin. Yes, it does happen. But to be honest with you, you have better chance of winning the Powerball lottery, twice in a row, than you do of finding that truly rare coin.

Most people know that. And that is also why the sarcasm is present.