And it’s a lot more than calling the cent a “penny.” Unbelievable... https://www.barrons.com/articles/fi...0-million-times-its-monetary-value-1538508889
Cringe-worthy in so many ways. We can all razz Paddyman about correcting people who call a coin “printed”, but that has no place in a properly written article. And Neumacist?? Huh!!??
Indeed. Although I'll give the author credit for explaining that Abraham Lincoln did not appear on this 1792 issue.
The author gets a million things right compared to 99% of the nonsense that shows up here on CoinTalk's Error Coins and What's it Worth Forums.
It's just another example of misinformation and bad information that is found so often in today's media. And if you give it a week or two that same bad information will be repeated on a dozen more websites.
Not just the article, in the comments two people tried to make corrections and added more incorrect information.
If you scroll down to the comments in response to Ms. Rubin's article, you'll see that she has been sufficiently skewered by Barron's/Penta readers - according to Muck Rack (a leading website for journalists), Willa Rubin's specialty is high class real estate
The blind leading the blind I guess. Now we know where the Youtubers get their wealth of misinformation.......
"The coin up for sale was printed in 1792, a year before the U.S. Mint started circulating coin currency."
I read this article linked in another thread. I thought it was atrocious but wasnt sure if it was the article or my 2 hours of sleep. Now I see it wasnt the lack of sleep.
Many of our CT young numismatists could have written this article without the spelling errors, misnomers and other inaccuracies. Steve
