I propose a new numismatic term...
MikeKing
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Organic!
As I asked across the street: Whatdya think???
As I asked across the street: Whatdya think???
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or a coin with old dirt on it, as in not cleaned, original?
You know, "Organic" doesn't really do anything coiny, that I can see.
How about "Coinorganite", used when referring to a crappy coin?
You know, like "Milorganite", the fertilizer Milwaukee makes from their sewage.
Ray
You mean like the stuff that I so regularly (thank you fiber) give back to nature ???
Russ, NCNE
i,ve heard of foreign merchants putting faked ancients in goat feed so they come out
looking old,crusty,and toned for the hapless tourists to buy as the real deal.
i,d call those `organic ancients` lol
<< <i>In the world of search engines, organic means the real search results as opposed to the paid search results. Thus, in numismatics, it might mean a coin that hasn't been manipulated in any way.
Russ, NCNE >>
I think that's what I'm trying to get at. I really cannot define the term by myself. My feeling is that it's a fitting term for such coins, but also encompasses those 'naturally toned' coins that occured over years in things such as whitman folders and kraft envelopes.
Actually, I think you can judge the stability of the patina on the basis of compiling many factors on a coin that makes it appear the patination occured 'naturally', as opposed to being forced, cooked, branded with chemiques that radically alter surfaces, accelerated reactions that are less likely stable and not as appealing. Though, on the surface, many of the 'market acceptable' (definition by the TPGS never to be released in any form of verbiage) might look like they could pass for 'organic' just because their toning is exciting and doesn't shout FAKE.
It's like the difference between Organic and Inorganic chemistry. And NO, John, now your intestinal byproduct of vegetable metabolism. You can't digest cellulose anyway, so that's kind of messy...OK?
But I'd say that most of Johns coins appear to me to be organic, and Slumlords coins the most organic, if that makes any sense.
I displayed three of my own coins for critique from most organic/most worshipful to least organic/least worshipful, across the street, but I'm too tired to work on that here tonight.
I appreciate any input because I think it can pull together a lot of 'stuff'.
<< <i>Organic, fertilized with plenty of BS. >>
You're probably right.
Hey, that kinda applies to NT and AT.
Joe.
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<< <i>If a coin is a POS, does that make it organic? >>