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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 2590005, member: 10461&quot;]I finally got around to submitting the copy in the OP to our local newspaper, <i>The Brunswick News</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reporter botched some of the details about the coin itself and made the article more about <i>me</i> than the find, but hey, she did the best she could as a non-numismatist, and it got enough interest to be on Page 1 below the fold, so that&#039;s cool.</p><p><br /></p><p>At a company Christmas party yesterday, the CEO of the company my wife and I work for came up to me and obviously knew who I was, since he said he&#039;d read about me in the paper.&nbsp; I mentioned that they&#039;d misquoted a few things and he laughed and said, &quot;Welcome to MY world!&quot;.&nbsp; So that was neat.</p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p><i><b><a href="http://goldenisles.news/news/local_news/brunswick-resident-unearths-roman-coin-in-georgia/article_ff6e8176-8b0f-5d06-84d9-437ac607052c.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://goldenisles.news/news/local_news/brunswick-resident-unearths-roman-coin-in-georgia/article_ff6e8176-8b0f-5d06-84d9-437ac607052c.html" rel="nofollow">Brunswick Resident Unearths Roman Coin In Georgia</a></b></i></p><p>By Lindsey Adkison, <i>The Brunswick News, </i>Saturday, December 10, 2016.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>OK, so she flubbed the math (though I might&#039;ve been the one who inadvertently said &quot;1700 years old&quot; instead of &quot;1600&quot; during our phone conversation), they omitted the photo, she had me determining <i>&quot;that it was&nbsp; a 1/4 penny&quot;</i> (sic), though I merely said it might have circulated <i>as a substitute for</i> a farthing in colonial times- <i>not</i> that it <i>is</i> a farthing (that distinction will be lost on 95% of the general public, including our reporter), and worse, said I <i>&quot;started digging&quot;</i>, which I most certainly did NOT, next to a colonial cemetery!&nbsp; (This was a surface find that had been washed out by the rain.)&nbsp; Also, all mention of the emperor Arcadius was lost, making this article pretty nonsensical, in the numismatic sense.</p><p><br /></p><p>But she tried.&nbsp; Give her a C or a C+ for getting <i>most</i> of the facts straight.&nbsp; You can compare the article to my copy above to see what got garbled.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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