The coin thread--post pictures of your traditional knives with a coin

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Here’s a Buck factory stag 704 Maverick that rides in my suit coat pocket most Sundays.

I heard of an iPhone app that will look at a coin and tell you all about it: grade it’s condition, tell you if it’s rare, what it’s worth, etc. One of my daughters and I downloaded it this evening, started the free trial, and started playing around with it. We started with normal, common coins from a variety of countries. It did pretty well, but we didn’t agree with the grading - the app seemed too optimistic. Then my daughter suggested we try to break it so we threw several edge cases at it, and it failed miserably. It quickly devolved into pure entertainment. Here are a few examples:

It identified two novelty souvenir coins from Colonial Williamsburg as being coins from Panama and Luxembourg. It declared a replica Mexican real that was cut entirely in two to be the real deal in “almost uncirculated” condition. Cut. Entirely. In. Half. LOL! It labeled a quarter that had been shot and was very obviously no longer round as being in “very fine” condition. It identified a US dime that had been run over by a train as a Turkish coin, and a nickel flattened by a train as a Morgan Silver Dollar.

As funny and entertaining as it was, it clearly demonstrated that the app fails the most basic image recognition tests: it can’t read text (Colonial Williamsburg novelty coins ID’ed as Panama and Luxembourg coins), and it can’t identify if a shape is a circle (or an ellipse if a coin that is supposed to be circular is held at an angle for the pictures) as evidenced by identifying mutilated coins that were obviously not round or flat as being in almost uncirculated condition.

Needless to say, I have already cancelled the 7 day free trial so I don’t get charged $40 next week. LOL!

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I have a small coin collection of officially minted currency and some just fun coins that I have found over the last few years. This is my favorite though, and a good motto to remind me of while I’m working or really doing anything.
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And quite obviously, this knife and leather work was definitively “Done Right” 🤣
 
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