Talk:Great Kentucky Hoard

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Bruxton (talk) 14:26, 16 July 2023 (UTC)

How many coins?
Are there 700 or 800 coins? If sources give both, the article has to address the discrepancy. Should the infobox use the exact number 700? It's doubtful there are exactly 700 (or 800) coins.

The Smithsonian Magazine says there are 700+. So does the New York Times. YoPienso (talk) 22:15, 22 July 2023 (UTC)


 * So I sort of did it myself. --The Little Red Hen
 * YoPienso (talk) 19:27, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I understood that there were 700 gold coins, but 800 coins total. Meaning 100 of the coins were not of the silver variety. That is how USA TODAY reports it. Bruxton (talk) 13:48, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
 * The first sentence of the article here says "more than 700 gold coins". Two lines below that, "700 of them were gold coins". Again further below that, "700 of them were gold". NYT reports "over" and "more than", without giving an accurate count. The Smithsonian has "700 Civil War-Era Gold Coins" in the article title, then "700-plus gold coins" in the article. Several other sources report similarly, 700 yet also more than/over 700. It appears that there's no way to tell at present if "over / more than" is the puffery of sloppy writing or if an accurate count is simply not yet available. Barefoot through the chollas (talk) 17:11, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
 * ??? The first sentence is, "Coin collectors rejoiced after gold was struck in a Kentucky cornfield last month, literally."
 * The second sentence is, "More than 800 gold Civil War-era coins were discovered after being buried more than 150 years ago." YoPienso (talk) 16:54, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
 * I think precision is important, so have clarified in the article that more than 800 coins, of which over 700 were gold, were found. YoPienso (talk) 16:52, 20 August 2023 (UTC)

Formatting
Need help in formatting caption on last picture. 2601:444:7E:D970:F599:484A:A507:260B (talk) 23:12, 9 September 2023 (UTC)