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Dearborn, I am literally agreeing with you, and have been all along. The two Numista listings you have posted are inconsistent, and to become consistent, the half-shekel listing ought to be changed to match the other denominations.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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oh! duh, ok - you kept confusing me with the calendar stuff.. my bad.. my old brain ain't what it used to be.
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United States
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Well, thanks for agreeing with me..  |
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Australia
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Sorry. It's just my knack of pointing out useless and irrelevant trivia, coming to the fore.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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United States
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No worries and thanks - Now, I think I may point it out to Numista to see if they can fix it.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Fall for what? I'm actually being serious here I was just kidding - I know nothing about Israeli coinage. 
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United States
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I know nothing about Israeli coinage. I didn't either until I started posting them up and had to learn how to read Hebrew numbers and letters (backwards)
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Pillar of the Community
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@dearborn, thanks for the heads up. I will see what I can find out. Probably one of the other admins is knowledgeable on the algorithm used for the date conversion (and meanwhile I will try to see if that error pops up consistently or just on this one coin)
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The year AD 2000 contains pieces of both the AM years 5760 and 5761. The larger piece is in 5760 (January to September), and so the more probable answer to the question "what Hebrew year is equivalent to AD 2000" is "5760" rather than "5761". But saying a coin dated AM 5761 was struck in AD 2000 is not, necessarily, an "error" in the sense of being wrong - it's just inconsistent with the rest of the date conversions for Israeli coins on Numista, as you have pointed out. I'm not defending Numista's inconsistency here, and I'm not saying it shouldn't be changed - I am merely attempting to explain how the inconsistency may have come about. Indeed for Israeli NCLT coins, which bear dates in both the Hebrew and Gregorian calendars, you can sometimes see both conversion variants:  I agree that the jumping conversions for single dates are inconsistent, though. It's possible that those are the set release years? But then it probably needs a source. Quote:
I'm reasonably certain that the Jewish people didn't randomly bounce the start and end of their calendars. Hanukkah, specifically, does jump around between Gregorian years, but only rarely, and it cannot start in the new year.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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@dearborn, it looks like a modification was made to the date table a few months ago, which might have caused the problem.
In addition to the dates being inconsistent with other Numista listings, it's also at odds with Krause (which also has mistakes, of course, but probably not in this case).
You can either open the listing by clicking on the little edit icon at the upper right, and edit each of the affected date lines, or you can put an item in the Catalog sub-forum describing the problem.
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Thanks TDZ, I'll try the edit option first..
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United States
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I submitted the changes - I hope I did it correctly...
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Just a quick up-date I guess my request for a fix worked and the changes have been made and now the dates are correct. |
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I guess my request for a fix worked and the changes have been made and now the dates are correct. Fantastic! 
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Excellent job, Dearborn!
Inordinately fascinated by bits of metal with strange markings and figures
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Posted 08/30/2024 10:11 pm
Uncirculated American Silver Eagles 
