The Coiney Love for Myth not Facts

Did you know?

British artifact and ancient coin regulations changed in 2012. To be properly documented the Hadrian sestertius was now required to have a provenance dating to before 1970.

That's according to Richard Giedroyc ('Coin Provenance Proves Important', World Coin News January 06, 2014, rehashing a story covered here last year). It strikes me that a US multi-million dollar trade like that in dugup numismatics could afford to employ a journalist who is capable of finding out and verifying the real facts about the topic he is writing about, just the same as they could afford a lobbyist who could do the same. Unfortunately getting a factual account of anything does not seem to be a coiney priority, and the effects are that we have what we have.