The word "coprophagist"...what's its numismatic tie?

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• cosmicdebris Posts: 12,332 ✭✭✭

  April 26, 2005 11:09AM

  Breen was also the lightning rod for the most memorable of all controversies connected with the NBS, a veritable verbal barroom brawl stimulated by his article published in the Fall-Winter issue of 1980. Entitled "A Review of the Half Cent Literature," the piece was followed by a brief note from editor Jack Collins: "The above article was written ca. 1966, and was extracted from the unpublished manuscript on United States half cents written by the author. It is here published for the first time, with the gracious permission of the author. Any half-cent literature which has appeared since 1966 has not been discussed herewith."
  
  In the next issue (Summer, 1981) Roger S. Cohen, Jr., author of the then-standard monograph on the series, American Half Cents: "The Little Half Sisters" fired off - or perhaps it would be more accurate to say flushed off - a letter to the editor that can only be described as "scatological." Noting that certain portions of the Breen article could only have been written after 1966, Cohen concluded that Breen had deliberately omitted mentioning The Little Half Sisters and that Collins' note was a transparent attempt to obscure the omission. Cohen blasted Collins as a "liar and a bigot" and concluded "the editor belongs to the depths He should be there also as a coprophagist."
  
  Ignoring the temptation to speculate on the dietary habits of The Asylum's editor, Breen responded in the same issue that he had done some light editing on the manuscript in 1972, before he had heard of Cohen's book, but had not revised it since then. Breen concluded, "the parties concerned may bury their hatchets wherever they please, so long as it is not anywhere in my anatomy." Collins, much more combative than Breen, and much less verbose than Cohen, responded with a single sentence: "In my opinion American Half Cents is what a coprophagist would wrap his lunch in."

  Bill
  
  
  
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• MrEureka Posts: 24,415 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 26, 2005 11:21AM

  The word "coprophagist"...what's its numismatic tie?
  
  Oh, no! Please, not another moderns-bashing thread!

  Andy Lustig
  
  Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
  
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• cladking Posts: 28,726 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 26, 2005 11:32AM

  
  
  << <i>The word "coprophagist"...what's its numismatic tie?
  
  Oh, no! Please, not another moderns-bashing thread! >>
  
  
  
  We live with it not on it.

  tempus fugit extra philosophiam.

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• Elcontador Posts: 7,680 ✭✭✭✭✭

  April 26, 2005 1:03PM

  Mark, when I was a senior in high school, I was responsible for monitoring the election re our "class name."
  That's when I first heard of the term, 'coprophagians,' as someone nominated it for our class name. Not to be outdone, someone else nominated 'necrophiliacs.' We had some strange people in my high school class...

  "Vou invadir o Nordeste,
  "Seu cabra da peste,
  "Sou Mangueira......."

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• mozeppa Posts: 4,431 ✭✭✭

  April 26, 2005 8:41PM

  cop·roph·a·gous ( P ) Pronunciation Key (k-prf-gs)
  adj.
  Feeding on excrement: coprophagous beetles.
  
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  cop·ropha·gy (--j) n.

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• errormaven Posts: 1,170 ✭✭✭

  April 27, 2005 12:49AM

  Coprophagy is a diet composed of excrement. It is a very successful and popular feeding strategy among bottom-dwelling marine organisms. Some terrestrial animals, such as dung beetles, also find turds delectable.

  Mike Diamond is an error coin writer and researcher. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those held by any organization I am a member of.

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• Gonfunko Posts: 1,484 ✭✭✭

  April 27, 2005 1:02AM

  
  
  << <i>Coprophagy is a diet composed of excrement. It is a very successful and popular feeding strategy among bottom-dwelling marine organisms. Some terrestrial animals, such as dung beetles, also find turds delectable. >>
  
  
  So do dogs.
  I'm gonna have to remember that one...could be useful.

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