
131 - Why Is a Silver Coin Worth Something?
No Dumb Questions
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The Ridges on the Outside of a Coin
This is a whole other rabbit trail we will pursue in future conversation. But what you're holding there, it's copper. This was cast. Yes, this was not a case. And the person has, i mean, i can almost determine an ethnicity of the of the face, like it dread lightly sandlin what ethnicity. I don't want to say because, ah, hat's best not to do armchair phrenology in this daan. What's phrenologys? The thing where you look at the shape of somebody's forehead and in their relative intelligence level. Nineteenth century eugenics. Like height of human bigotry.
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