Talk:Number One Dime/@comment-1416077-20150405221518/@comment-25090039-20150406102046

Hi,

Sorry for posting my respond in such an inconvenient format. My internet connection was briefly shut down and I had just managed to make a screenshot of my post. I hope you don't feel offended by my messages, but I just want to clear up a few things.

1) You must have read this at an unofficial site where Rosa's opinion was (once again) beleived to  be an authority on this subject rather than the man who created Scrooge and his dime. The only thing that Barks once showed in a story regarding Scrooge's birthday is that, in the 1955 one-pager, Scrooge celebrates his 75th birthday. No 1867 involved, since that is a Rosa creation. Don Rosa's "timeline" is (apparently) considered "canon" by YOU, but not by everyone. Rosa's stories are all just as official as any other Disney comic every printed under the Disney license. Still, I'm really amazed that Barks's own opinion gets to be second to Rosa's in an aricle like this.

2) No, the author is right. Rosa provided his own thoughts on the subject, but that doesn't make it the "truth". According to a comic written by Pat and Carol McGreal, the coin is from 1857. That's just as "official" and just as "canon" as any other story.

3) The man behind cbarks.dk (to which I provided a link in my previous message) also confirmed that this was Scrooge's No. 1 Dime. And here is an image drawn by Rosa about the dime, in which he also drew the giant dime with the ribbed edge and the eagle with the stars:

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