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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 447850, member: 66&quot;]Good grief there are so many errors and just &quot;duh&quot; information in that article.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>How much study did that take since it has been common knowledge among cent collectors for over sixty years at least.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>True, and common knowledge for over two years.&nbsp; (I do realize that with recent dropping metal prices it is no longer true but I don&#039;t hold that against them since this was probably written at least a little while back.&nbsp; Maybe a month ago.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>True, and the first studies that demonstrated it were published about 15 to 20 years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Copper was supplied by Matthew Boulton&nbsp; beginning in 1797.&nbsp; Matthew Boulton was the entrepreneur, Matthew Robinson Boulton was his son and didn&#039;t take over completely until around 1809 after Matthew Boulton died.&nbsp; Boulton was not the Director of the Soho Mint, he was the owner of it.&nbsp; And as mentioned it was not in Cornwall, it was in Birmingham.&nbsp; Matthew Boulton did own copper mines in Cornwall though. Whether the copper for our coins came from Cornwall or the larger deposits in Wales and Anglesey I do not know.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Not surprising since before 1836 we really didn&#039;t have any significant domestic gold&nbsp; supplies and not that much domestic silver before the 1860&#039;s and 70&#039;s.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Huh?&nbsp; They were pure copper until 1857 and then smaller and&nbsp; 88% copper until 1864.&nbsp; And they say they collaborated with a coin dealer?&nbsp; Something tells me they didn&#039;t collaborate much.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>WHAT!!&nbsp; In the early 1900&#039;s 95% Cu 5% NICKEL!! They have no idea what they are talking about.&nbsp; Changed to 95% copper 5% zinc in 1981??&nbsp; Try 1963.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>If they can&#039;t get the KNOWN compositions right for the coins, I&#039;m not sure how far I would trust their conclusions on unknown material.</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course to be fair, the scientists may have all of their data and information correct.&nbsp; It is VERY possible that all of these errors were made by the person that wrote the article.&nbsp; (Journalist and reporters can NEVER seem to get a numismaticaly related story right unless they regularly cover them for a numismatic publication.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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