Let's have a laugh, share strangest requests you, as referee, ever dealt with

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Here's mine: a request to modify a coin page with a completely unrelated new coin. 

It's the correct issuer but title, subject, lettering, date, alignment, mintage and material are all incorrect,  pictures are poor-quality scans. 

All I have to do now is simply create a new coin page, and I should explain to the member how to do that, but I've already spent too much time on this new page, and that has already taken far too much of my energy 😊

Referee of south atlantic islands

Nothing too strange. Once a or twice a year I get a stub where I don't even now if it is a coin, exonumia or a banknote they want to add. More often I get requests that look more like attempts of adding things to THEIR collection then the catalog,with things that are already in the catalog etc. and sometimes the requests get used as some kind of communication tool to ask if their stuff is authentic or correctly identified.

Fortunately, it was a duplicate. Phew! It's my lucky day!

Wrong fields : Title, location, issuing company, issued date, demontezized date, obverse/Reverse inverted, date, no privy mark.

And what about the lettering and description … 

Referee of south atlantic islands

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