Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Riddle #008

An archaeologist finds a coin dated 48 B.C. How did he know it was a fake coin?

Answer:
BC is Before Christ. Christ was not yet born when the coin would have been made and the date would be impossible.

2 comments:

Sriram said...

First probable thing. Those days, all the exchanges were made through commodities directly and not thro' coins..

Second probable thing.. Assuming the coin is gold.. The manufacturer of that coin wouldn't have stamped B.C. as nobody knows when a person(in this case "Christ") is born..

aXs said...

@Sriram: Perfect answer !