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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 3205902, member: 112&quot;]My last paragraph in that post was not being addressed to you Books.</p><p><br /></p><p>But you&#039;re right I didn&#039;t answer your question, I realized that myself after I had signed off and shut down for the day. When I used the term newly discovered coins I suppose the best way to explain it is to say I was talking about coins that are for one reason or another, remarkable or newsworthy, special in some way, very scarce maybe even rare (and when I say rare that means less than 10 are known to even exist)- but yet unknown to the numismatic public in general, coins they/we were previously unaware that somebody had them in their collection, or maybe for whatever reason just happened to suddenly turn up. Coins like that are what I was referring to.</p><p><br /></p><p>And with coins like that, yeah, I believe you can count them on one hand and still have fingers left over.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is an example of one of those coins -</p><p><a href="http://www.coinnews.net/2018/08/21/1538-8-reales-silver-dollar-realizes-528000/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinnews.net/2018/08/21/1538-8-reales-silver-dollar-realizes-528000/" rel="nofollow">http://www.coinnews.net/2018/08/21/1538-8-reales-silver-dollar-realizes-528000/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Years ago, I&#039;m thinking it was in the 90&#039;s when they (3 of them) were first discovered (came to the attention of the public) - THAT was newsworthy ! And as you can see from that link they still are today.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another example would be the coin that saved George Dixon&#039;s life, the $20 double eagle. Everybody knew it existed, the story was very well known. But when that coin was newly discovered - that too was news !</p><p><br /></p><p>And this isn&#039;t addressed to you Books, but for those who wish to dispute things, with the kind of thing I&#039;m talking about, 3 of those coins being found doesn&#039;t mean you use 3 fingers, you only use 1, because it&#039;s <u>the find of the specific coin</u> that I&#039;m counting, not the number of coins that happened to be there.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I&#039;ve been saying all along - the definition thing - it&#039;s a matter of how one intends the words he uses, what they mean when he uses them, not how somebody else interprets them ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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