Original AP story on 1794 $1
Halfsense
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It perhaps is beneficial if everyone commenting on the Associated Press story about the Neil/Carter 1794 dollar sees the ORIGINAL version of the story.
Many of you have only seen the abbreviated 300 word re-write done by the wire service's National Desk in New York, or an even shorter, edited version in your local newspaper. Please read the original, rather well-done 500 word story, from the AP's Denver Bureau, and you'll see the reporter did a nice job balancing the issue of first stike versus early strike.
However, missing from that story -- but clearly pointed out in the item posted on the ANA's Newsroom web site -- is the actual "new" angle on this coin: the results of personal inspections of the coin the past year by various well-seasoned numismatists and their comments on whether it was a presentation/specimen strike, unique with the silver plug, and whether it was, in their individual opinions, the first strike or something close to it.
Here's a link to the original AP story. (I don't know how much longer it will be online at this Denver TV station's web site.)
http://www.9news.com/storyfull.aspx?storyid=25498
One side note on the difficulty of explaining numismatic things to the general news media. Several years ago, when Dwight Manley exhibited the Eliasberg 1913 Liberty Head nickel in Long Beach, the local newspaper ran a photo of only the REVERSE of the coin. The Photo Editor apparently thought the important part was the wording "United States of America" and "Five Cents." Of course, many people called the paper -- and the Long Beach Expo -- claiming to have a valuable coin "just like the one in the newspaper."
-donn-
Many of you have only seen the abbreviated 300 word re-write done by the wire service's National Desk in New York, or an even shorter, edited version in your local newspaper. Please read the original, rather well-done 500 word story, from the AP's Denver Bureau, and you'll see the reporter did a nice job balancing the issue of first stike versus early strike.
However, missing from that story -- but clearly pointed out in the item posted on the ANA's Newsroom web site -- is the actual "new" angle on this coin: the results of personal inspections of the coin the past year by various well-seasoned numismatists and their comments on whether it was a presentation/specimen strike, unique with the silver plug, and whether it was, in their individual opinions, the first strike or something close to it.
Here's a link to the original AP story. (I don't know how much longer it will be online at this Denver TV station's web site.)
http://www.9news.com/storyfull.aspx?storyid=25498
One side note on the difficulty of explaining numismatic things to the general news media. Several years ago, when Dwight Manley exhibited the Eliasberg 1913 Liberty Head nickel in Long Beach, the local newspaper ran a photo of only the REVERSE of the coin. The Photo Editor apparently thought the important part was the wording "United States of America" and "Five Cents." Of course, many people called the paper -- and the Long Beach Expo -- claiming to have a valuable coin "just like the one in the newspaper."
-donn-
"If it happens in numismatics, it's news to me....
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