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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Insider, post: 2779919, member: 24314&quot;]As I&#039;ve witnessed over the years numismatic definitions have evolved - some for the better and some...well <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie30" alt=":bucktooth:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.</p><p><br /></p><p>Old words like &quot;Cud&quot; and &quot;Double Die&quot; have been updated.&nbsp; Did you know that at one time the ANA defined &quot;Whizzing&quot; as a chemical alteration?<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie57" alt=":jawdrop:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie46" alt=":facepalm:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>At the same time, new folks join the hobby an many think they can throw words around in any way without knowing what they mean to educated numismatists who came before.&nbsp; We had a marine on CT (still here?) who thought he could do that and argued about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Back then and now, experts in their field of collecting revise or &quot;coin&quot; new terminology.&nbsp; In the 1970&#039;s members of the certification service in DC were constantly making up terms to describe something they saw under a microscope.&nbsp; Ever hear of &quot;spider web crystals.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>The reason for conformity of terms is that two collectors far apart can understand what the other is talking about.&nbsp; Educated numismatists know them and use them properly.&nbsp; And if you need to ask what &quot;properly&quot; means, you may not be one! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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