Posted 09/12/2016 11:12 am
I used to have nicknames for a lot of my coins in the late 1990s and early 2000s, back when my "collecting" was more like playing with my coins (this ended by 2007, when I was 15).
I still have some of those coins, I think, but can't recall any of their nicknames (and I mostly lost the coins with nicknames I do recall fairly early).
I don't think "Sedan Double" (that's "Sedanskiy Dubl'" in original Russian) counts as a nickname when it's basically describing what the coin is (a double tournois of Sedan). But it certainly sounds funny.
And I still call my Arados coin "second century antoninianus", because that's what it was sold as originally.
(Yes, even at the time of the sale I knew enough to realize that this description was bogus and translated to "the seller has no idea". But the coin looked interesting enough anyway.)
I still have some of those coins, I think, but can't recall any of their nicknames (and I mostly lost the coins with nicknames I do recall fairly early).
I don't think "Sedan Double" (that's "Sedanskiy Dubl'" in original Russian) counts as a nickname when it's basically describing what the coin is (a double tournois of Sedan). But it certainly sounds funny.
And I still call my Arados coin "second century antoninianus", because that's what it was sold as originally.
(Yes, even at the time of the sale I knew enough to realize that this description was bogus and translated to "the seller has no idea". But the coin looked interesting enough anyway.)
Umm.... No
