January 14, 2013: "Buffalo de Milo"

Author:
C. Sloan

Concept
We think it’s important to occasionally run an edgy, obtuse, hard-to-decipher or really deep CRO ad, such as this week’s effort concocted by one of our regular guest authors.

Which we are sure our loyal readers will immediately ‘get’, drawing the connection between Venus de Milo’s missing arms and the leg of this classic Buffalo Nickel error which some guy at the mint polished right off the die when no one was looking.

Captions that didn’t make the cut:
Our guest author also proposed "The Intersection of Numismatics and Cow Tipping.", and while that did fit the featured item, we strongly prefer our arcane references to be to Hellenistic sculpture and not so much to activities some midwestern high school dropout might engage in.

So we went with the former, and scrapped the latter.