Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 2784257, member: 76194&quot;]It&#039;s not as bad as the fallacy that this was the first coin ever.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]644914[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It is, if you ignore the evidence showing coins started to be minted in India around the same exact time, and also if you ignore archeological evidence showing the Chinese were minting Tong Bei money (bronze cowry shells used as&nbsp; coins) 300 years before the west &quot;invented coins&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>What&#039;s next? Europeans invented the printing press? Might want to fact check that one too.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Lesson: </b>Don&#039;t get your coin facts from dealers with a financial stake in selling a coin by hyping facts and embellishing history. That&#039;s how we got the &quot;widow&#039;s mite&quot;, if you ignore the half dozen other candidates that could have been the true widow&#039;s mite, or the &quot;tribute penny&quot;, which is only one of a dozen or so coins that could have been the candidate for the coin Jesus held up.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are a lot of &quot;facts&quot; circulating in our hobby with little, if any, evidence to back them up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in