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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2901313, member: 19463"]Many sensationalist hoard report stories include photos that also cause us to say 'incompetent journalism'. We have seen the use of stock photos that do not show coins from the hoard or even similar types. We have seen rarity and value estimates completely out of step with the images used. Perhaps they have learned from past missteps and decided not to use photos that they don't understand??? </p><p><br /></p><p>In this case we have good photos from the Daily Mail piece which bring up a really good question. They showed a pile of nice mid-grade coins (the kind I would like to collect) and a few paper labels with really bare bones ID's. What I want to know is whether anyone recorded which label went with which coin. Most can be identified to some degree from the photo. I see the one Greek of Aegina in the pile. Can you find the Chinese coin? Is there possibly a fake or two? What is it that drives people to display such things in a pile?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2901313, member: 19463"]Many sensationalist hoard report stories include photos that also cause us to say 'incompetent journalism'. We have seen the use of stock photos that do not show coins from the hoard or even similar types. We have seen rarity and value estimates completely out of step with the images used. Perhaps they have learned from past missteps and decided not to use photos that they don't understand??? In this case we have good photos from the Daily Mail piece which bring up a really good question. They showed a pile of nice mid-grade coins (the kind I would like to collect) and a few paper labels with really bare bones ID's. What I want to know is whether anyone recorded which label went with which coin. Most can be identified to some degree from the photo. I see the one Greek of Aegina in the pile. Can you find the Chinese coin? Is there possibly a fake or two? What is it that drives people to display such things in a pile?[/QUOTE]
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