I have found manufacturers VERY tight-lipped about what chemicals are in their plastics, as any government-mandated change in formulation is very...
Now I remember using old "slide" cases occasionally - hadn't thought of that in decades.
Bold date, strong rims, and pleasing appearance = fine plus, but certainly not very fine.
Make some big unbreakable "rubber bands" with 1-inch wide sewing elastic, by tying the ends together. Don't create a 180° twist as you're tying....
A good plan. I have now sold off about 50 foreign silvers with considerable premiums over spot, but still only $5 to $15 coins, and bought four...
"PMs and numismatic coins...entirely separate issues for me." Agreed, but I do NOT agree that one has no effect on the other. If you pay a...
The one thing to resist is the temptation to "trade" 90% silver, "buy-low, sell-high, repeat." One look at the chart for the past ten or twenty...
Would you tweet when you bought one?
It IS the size of a tire; those Mounties are 8'4 and 8'1.
In 1916, Egypt put out new holed coins concurrent with the British Protectorate and French occupation, denominations of 1, 2, 5, and 10 milliemes....
Either plan works. When you have developed a complete and superior product, there will be plenty of collectors happy to pay for it, and you will...
If your library has the five huge Krause foreign coin catalogs (17th thru 21st centuries), you could photocopy the index of each volume, cross out...
Here is an image of a fake 1932 from my files. Note the very weird "2," somewhat similar to what Sakata pointed out: [ATTACH]
For calcol, you "might" find something useful at: www.oldapps.com
To clarify a little bit, here's a note on Excel images I had kept: "Excel allows you to set up graphics so that they are associated with cells...
Not to worry, RCM can make another one by April 1.
Spot. The item is not that large, by the way. Gold weighs 1,206 pounds per cubic foot. The coin weighs 100 kilos, or about 221 pounds. It is...
I also use Excel; when you design it, you understand it, right from Day One. Some of you may not know that you can add a "comment" (which you can...
Some of the same principles apply to sorting and identifying stamps, except you only have to look at one side. o_O
"Lawrence of Arabia"
Separate names with a comma.
