QUERY: "IN GOOD NICK"

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The E-Sylum: Volume 15, Number 26, June 24, 2012, Article 27

QUERY: "IN GOOD NICK"

Dick Johnson submitted this note with the headline, "ARCHAEOLOGIST COINS NEW CONDITION TERM". Can anyone translate this for us yanks? -Editor

In a news article from England on the discovery of a buried coin of William the Conqueror, an archaeologist called the condition of the coin "quite good nick."

The complete paragraph was "Joanne Kirton, archaeology supervisor, added: "The coin is in quite good nick and it was very difficult to make out the name on the coin."

Maybe a British reader can translate the slang term "nick" in this meaning.

Here's the complete story: 1000-year-old coin found in Bamburgh (www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local-headlines/1000-year-old
-coin-found-in-bamburgh-1-2366621)

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