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Hede's coin book,

printed 1964:

Monthly Commentary

for well-informed circles

 October 2004

… a good story from Grelber

3.rd series

Data from appr. 1920

 

-----Original message-----  

From:    Grelber [mailto:grelber@image.dk]

Send:    2. July 2004 20:51

To:         Ole B. Andrejcak; Ulf Ottosson; Bjørn Ringøy; Michael Fornitz; Per-Göran Carlsson; Kjell W. Riibe; Gunnar The­sen; Kjell Holmberg; Jimmy Häggqvist; coindealer@ ahl­strom-coin.com; Niels E. Stampe; Kjell Z. An­der­sen;

                    Bernt J. Bertelsen; Bengt Hemmingsson; tonkin@tonkin.se; Birger Bentsen; mem@image.dk, + div. Pri­va­te

Cc:              Børge Juul; Jens Pilegaard; Lauritz.com; Nobel Antik; Jørgen Sømod; Jørgen Steen Jensen; 'support@auction.no'; Bjørn Nordbakk; Øyvind Skaar

Subject:  Hede's coin book, printed 1964: data from approximately 1920.

  

GRELBER 06.2004> The R-'informations' in Hede's coin book printed 1964 are chiefly based on transcript of Schou's data from appr. 1920. The data used by Hede thus were appr. 44 years obsolete even before the printing of his coin book in 1964. As of 2004 the data thus are appr. 84 years antiquated. Even further the data in it self were absolutely insufficient to number-'statements', since the data only included a piddling 19 private collections.

 

In the 2 later ’revised’ editions printed 1971 and 1978 (the latter by the present chief of The Royal Coin- and Medal- Collection Jørgen Steen Jensen), which basically just were unchanged reprints of the 1964 coin book, only a few, randomly, superficial and minimal R-adjustments were made, that has no importance in the greater connexion as goes for the almost completely missing R-revision.

 

Simply put no systematic R-revision was ever made !  

 

Moreover can be noticed, that by Schou non-counted coin-specimens sold at auctions after appr. 1920 in particularly barrister of the Supreme Court Holger Hede's own coin dealer auction company and also in e.g. NF and other auction places neither were counted by Hede in the original 1.st edition of his 1964 coin book (sic).

 

A number of imprudent 'researchers' and professional dealers and auction houses copies nonetheless R-'informations' from Hede's coin book in attempt to mislead and create a illusion . . . . . .

 

 

Fundamental rule in all simplicity: ”When a person[:=here Hede]  has NOT researched the source material   - including the approx. 4.000 Danish-Norwegian printed source material-auctions -    this person[:=here Hede]  is NOT qualified to make any 'statement' on number of known specimens. Such a person[:=here Hede]  therefore shall NOT make any kind at all of 'statements' on number of known specimens. If not, then the average statistical probability will be, that potential buyers will be misled. A person furthermore is NOT released from his legal responsibility by copying other persons [:=e.g. Hede’s or Sieg’s or NM's] rarity cheatings. And misleading of buyers by using false, factual 'informations' is illegal.”

 

 		  

http://numisbooks.dk/info/professionalmisleadingofclients.htm upon the Law on Marketing informs:

It is Your responsibility, that those factual informations, You print, actually are correct.

[§ 2, article 4: "The accuracy of statements on factual matters are obliged to be demonstrable."]

 

The law thus leaves no possibility to try to use 'stupid-smart' bypassing pinches by e.g. adding the words "according to, probably, presumably, supposedly etc.".

[For the reading- or comprehension- inhibited: that includes the wordings "RR according to Hede", "RR according to Sieg", "X privately owned specimens according to NM" – You are only legally allowed to print those (few) quotations, that contents wise are true.]

[. . . or You are obliged to add the 5 words: "But this is a lie]

 

You thus are NOT allowed to print all the many Hede-R's, which are a lie !

 

[Grelber doctrine printed as early as 05.2001: "Since You do not know which many Hede R's, that are a lie and which few Hede R's, that actually are true, You shall use NO R-statements from Hede's book WHATSOEVER." ]

 

 

The law thus NOT gives You ’permission’ to print false, misleading, factual 'informations' if just You try to 'blame it on' / 'quote' / Hede or Sieg or NM for the false ’information’ !

 

YOU are the one that will go to jail for the printing of the false 'information'.

 

Here it is opportune to read: New conviction 04.08.2004 of wide repercussions to the coin, second hand, antique and auction businesses. Scandinavian professional sentenced to jail for "capitalizing on a buyers' delusion"

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

PS A question from Grelber to You:

Are YOU included in the group of imprudent: "A number of ... 'researchers' and professional dealers and auction houses copies nonetheless R-'informations' from Hede's coin book ..." ? ? ?

 

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