How Far Back Can We Go? Fourth Edition! - Ended At 1461 Waiting On 1460 C. E. (A. H. 864) -

my next one will be 1452...

A question on adherence to the rules ...

In medieval coins from Silesia, I have seen a type (Kopicki 8671)listed in Polish auction catalogs as "ok. 1460" which I take to be an abbreviation for "okolo 1460" or "around 1460."
I don't have this type, but it comes up for auction pretty regularly, and I have been thinking about expanding into 15th c. Silesia since there is a lot of neat stuff.

I am curious if "around 1460" would be accepted, or if the attribution needs to be more specific (I think I know the answer, but thought I'd ask anyhow).

Sounds to me like "okolo" is another way of saying "circa". Previously we have shied away from these as being legit ways of claiming a specific year. I guess my thought is that if we are confortable with only a few years of progress every few months then we should have a strict interpretation. If showing progress on a better time scale is more important, then we should allow coins with some sort of a range.

Good points, both.

I guess we need to consider how narrow the approximation is. Months would be okay since we already allow it to accommodate other calendars. I think years would be going too far.

I think I vaguely recall that @louie said that they had a coin from 1460?

...Oh, right, the phrase was "This will be my last post till we get to 1460". I'm not sure if this meant that they had an 1460 or not.

In any case, someone should contact @louie... if it's possible, at least, since apparently they turned the email feature off.

Anyone knows any contact information for them?

I think I've figured out the details, but the censorship of this forum is exemplary, which means that I probably won't be allowed to post them anyway. So I just won't try.

It is quite unfortunate that we are probably stuck here for good; I don't think we've had two editions in a row stuck at the same year before.

EDIT: in retrospect, I wonder if the same exact thing had happened when @medieval disappeared a few years back...

I'm not sure how I missed that. I distinctly remember checking and finding that the 1st edition ended on... 1495 or 1494, I think. Something like that.

If we were actually stuck at 1491 that long, I retract my statement. I doubt we'd be stuck for quite as long this time, anyway.
[EDIT: especially since we have apparently lost the guy who had the only known 1480 and 1473 coins on CCF - which means that next year we might instead end up in a weird situation where the 5th edition is a decade or two behind the 4th but cannot progress either. I don't think there are any other gaps, though.]

Incidentally, fun fact: this thread currently has only a few posts more than the Fifth Edition; both are at 311 pages. By this time tomorrow the Fifth Edition would probably be longer.