Poll About my future posts.

So you have a choice. Do you want it spoon fed in the future. or do you want to think it out? Please vote in this poll.

I've been posting micrographs of parts of coins showing various characteristics you will eventually see. They can all be seen with your naked eye; however, the quiz images are taken with much higher power.

Depending on what you know, how closely you examine coins, AND my poor photographic skills, some of these quizzes are very easy and some are very difficult.

I'm posting these for fun, education, and discussion. Some members do not like the way I post these so please chime in.

What type of post do you want?

 

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Make us work for it, but be prepared for the unexpected.

 

My quick answer is to keep going the way you have. Please don't get too agitated with us.

 

Another vote for working for the answer.

 

Keep annoying me with the way you are currently doing it. I enjoy trying to get under your skin.

 

Keep doing it your way-some drama/comedy is expected regardless.

 

Keep us guessing, your brain retains more when you make it think. Which is what education and learning is about.

 

Make us guess and think - but don't be so bothered by trolls. Just ignore them.

 

My problem with some of these is that you don't show the whole coin. If somebody was going to diagnose any of this stuff themselves, they would have the whole coin to look at. What series it is, what year it was minted, which mint, etc, is all important information. I could post a 50x image of a tiny area of a coin and you might not be able to tell what the heck it was either. Context is important.

 

At my age, a brain teaser may be tough, but I need it.

 

I understand why Insider is doing it this way, but I think a lot of people would like to see "the whole coin."

In some of the cases posted, seeing the whole coin would make the question immediately obvious to many - but even still, that would be educational for many.

 

Ignore trolls and make us think.

 

I like a challenge.

 

Do you mean "make the answer immediately obvious"?

 

Words have meaning.

 

I like the challenge keep on keeping on

 

If a photo of the entire coin would make the answer immediately obvious, then don't show it. If it doesn't matter then please show the entire coin.

 

Since you like a challenge, how about you challenge yourself. Post the micrographs that you like so much for your guessing games but then also post a photo of the entire coin but do it in such a fashion that it doesn't spoil your guessing game.

FWIW, the condescension and petulance that oozes from this thread is more the reason people have a problem with your posts, not the challenge. There is nothing unreasonable about people asking to have the same information that you have, which includes what type of coin we are looking at. If your fear is that the more experienced members will solve your quiz too easily, thereby ruining the surprise, and depriving you of your fantasy to become Professor Kingsfield, let me tell you this. I routinely post Jefferson Nickel GTG threads where the Full Step designation is crystal clear, yet there are almost always responders who get the designation wrong. You don't need to make the quizzes more difficult, even if someone does proffer the correct answer, others will not know that they have seen the correct answer, they will still make their own guess, and they will still end up learning in the end.