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So the coins date to 29 CE? Hmmmm.... Please ignore the carbon 14 testing which dates the actual shroud to 1260–1390 CE.

The carbon dating which did so date what was tested to those dates has been invalidated due to violation of the sampling protocols which allowed the eight called for samples to be devolved down to a single sample taken from the one area the scientists had said should be completely avoided on the shroud because it was chemically and physically different from the main body of the Shroud.

It has now been shown TIMES THREE in peer reviewed published scientific research to be a mixture of probable 16th Century DYED COTTON patching threads interwoven with original UNDYED FLAXEN LINEN threads of the main body of the shroud. This melange of contaminating newer and older original material combined when tested to return testing dates from the three C-14 labs, ranging from a low of 1260AD to 1390AD that DID NOT OVERLAP in their +/- 25 year degree of confidence of ANY of the tested sub-samples, which, although taken from the same master-sample, should have been a big red flag for the testers that what they were testing was not homogenous! Unfortunately, they were blinded by their prejudices and it did not occur to them they were several sigmas outside the range of normality for such a result for a homogenous sample.

Remaining piece of the master sample has been examined and found to be cotton on one side, and flax on the other side, skillfully interwoven by a technique called French Invisible Reweaving, developed in the 15th Century to repair expensive Arrases and Tapestries when they got worn. It literally involved twisting the fibers of the original threads into fibers of replacement new threads to continue and replace an area that had been so badly damaged it had to be "rewoven" and replaced. The corner the sample for C-14 testing had been the corner from which the Shroud had been hung, held onto by priests, and carried around by for centuries, on at least a weekly basis and apparently had become tattered. It was repaired using dyed European Cotton to match the original Flax threads, which is recognizable under a microscope.

The inventor of the C-14 technique used to date the sample of the Shroud, when asked what date the original material would have had to have been when mixed with a contaminating substance in the proportion as the Shroud sample to produce the 1350AD averaged date, did some calculations and said "1st century, give or take 100 years."

Even the leader of the 1988 testing has agreed that the Shroud testing has been compromised by the violation of the sampling protocols right from the beginning.