Holy Crap Batman

[ifoundapenny]

Attached is a link to an article that blew my mind! We all hear about amazing discoveries that we all envy and wish we could have found, but to make a find that could potentially rewrite history and at the very least opens up a debate within the history community just makes me want the snow in Ohio to melt faster so I can get digging....




http://news.yahoo.com/shilling-discovery-could-rewrite-canadian-history-064412680.html

 

[Surfinsafari]

Whats more amazing than that, is your use of the "C" word got through moderationI used the "Q" word in describing homosexual activity and it was auto-moderated out of my post. Some one could have dropped that coin in the near past so to get all excited and want to rewrite history...eh, I'll have to be really convinced. The archies really don't have much to do these days so when someone finds an odd coin they get mahogany. I found a 1797 brass cent in my town, that doesn't mean my town is actually 100 years older than it really is.

 

[ifoundapenny]

Haha maybe it was the combination of the "c" word along with batman that made the mods all nostalgic about Adam West and let it slide

You are definitly right and the find does deserve some skepticism and a dose of salt needs to be taken when reading anything in the media these days. But I would counter that isn't that part of the fun in our hobby? Finding an old coin and imagining who had once held it, wondering how it traveled to that plot of land before you dug it out of the ground for me is a lot similar to how I feel when on the rare occasions I decide to buy a lottery ticket and imagine myself winning the jackpot. Regardless of the coins actual history and how it found its way out there, its still an awesome find and its even tenuous connection to history makes it that much more special.

 

[ironsight]

Who knows positively what went on in North America 435 years ago.
They have proved the Vikings made it to Canada hundreds of years ago.

The 'C' word!.

'Cword' happens!

 

[Surfinsafari]

Haha maybe it was the combination of the "c" word along with batman that made the mods all nostalgic about Adam West and let it slide

You are definitly right and the find does deserve some skepticism and a dose of salt needs to be taken when reading anything in the media these days. But I would counter that isn't that part of the fun in our hobby? Finding an old coin and imagining who had once held it, wondering how it traveled to that plot of land before you dug it out of the ground for me is a lot similar to how I feel when on the rare occasions I decide to buy a lottery ticket and imagine myself winning the jackpot. Regardless of the coins actual history and how it found its way out there, its still an awesome find and its even tenuous connection to history makes it that much more special.

Youre right! I find cool things in the oddest places and spend alot of thought time wondering how it could have gotten there. It is fun but I couldn't even win find of the month from my club for a 214 year old coin much less rewrite history over it. I think the coin got press because history is being rewritten all the time because the "experts" are finding out that they were taught old data. Just cause someone wrote it in a book doesn't mean its true.