It is a real tsunami fake news, i.e. of fake news, biased, misleading and, therefore, harmful that has to the object of the old lire, but also banknotes and euro coins. Securities type lire stored in the drawer: it may be a treasure or These old lire can be worth a fortune (even 15 thousand euros) they snuck up on smartphones – because, now, the media's favorite is this one – of millions and millions of people.
For a time it comes to numismatics and, to do so, they are both portals of news lower than those of major newspapers in print, radio, and multimedia. The problem is that, in doing so, they are not never adopted the principles of completeness and correctness of the information that are the basis of the ethics of a journalist.
Articles, post show, in fact, lists of coins in lire supposed “rare” with lapidary sentence of the type “2 lire Spiga 1947: it is 1800 euro” or “20 lire of 1956: "is it 700 euro” without ever noting that these prices are for the maximum samples in conservation uncirculated, maybe sealed and periziati, and were often made one-off since, the real market, a very different thing.
The less approximate between the fake news on the old lire, or about euro coins are limited to say the margin, which a coin “can be also” a certain, astronomical figure, but, what with the bitterness we see from these pseudo scoop it comes to the content are made, neither more nor less than those on the miss at the beach, or on the new yacht of the millionaire round, only to generate more web traffic as possible.
And instead. Instead, it happens every day, the professional numismatists receive dozens of e-mails and phone calls people who have a treasure in the drawernot so much, to be clear, the common people uninformed of numismatics that, once you have received the correct information – “not worth absolutely nothing, I'm sorry” – you simply shake your head and he puts again the coins in the bag from her grandmother, but, at this stage of economic hardship related to the coronavirus, you begin to cry discovering that their 100 lire of 1955 in mediocre conservation does not hold even one euro.
Those people, seduced and bidonate journalism surfacebased on the ignorance of a sector of a noble culture and collecting (and often on the “copy-paste” from one site to another), not only will they receive a bad disappointment – of the rest, a numismatist who respects you can't do otherwise – but from that moment on perceive the world of coins (so, collectors, and the trade of these objects) in a universe of hazy, vaguely fraudulent and which to stay away.
What to do, then? Take it with colleagues by press and / or with the Order by invoking sanctions, warnings, information circulars? The voice of one crying in the wilderness. However, given that in this world the means of social give everyone the opportunity to have an opinion and a comment, because numismatists and collectors, dealers, or simply a fan – don't try to mass, after us, to to deny these fake news by sharing this editorial and sending their reports to the sites that publish?
With a wave of shares and comments – “it's Not true, the price of a currency depends on the storage...” – the editorial offices of some of the heads (maybe) you will realize the fact that the coin does not exist only for infiocchettare, without any scruple of fack checking, useless news resorts.