It is hard o fully explain if one hasn't actually read about how the coin is made. Yours is mechanical doubling. The 1955/55 cent is one of the...
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Here is the best current source for it I can find. You might have connections with one of the educational and commercial groups that can get free...
Read step 5 https://www.stevespanglerscience.com/lab/experiments/gold-pennies/ This is a popular lab experiment and thousands of the silver or...
True, I can not think of a nicer person to receive such a surprise gift. You always try hard and have made tremendous progress. Maybe someday you...
The subject stops here. USNAF is on vacation for a while. Further discussion in this area will result in more vacations. Thank you Jim
Sounds like the "real" trading posts along old Hwy 66 in western NM and East Ariz.. When Flagstaff has the 'Pow Wow" , the fakes roll out although...
The pH of the solution is between 13 and 13.25 in the bottle. The color , consistency , and pH seems to indicate it is the old formula. Jim
Perhaps you should follow Detecto's lead. Just start another account under the name "Insider2". No one will know it's you, I promise! ;) I...
I think this is the article. But the summary leaves out some important factors. You can ask for the complete article. It was financed by a company...
It is copper plated , either by a company ( see below from a 1960 era coin magazine) or as a science experiment you can find on the internet. No...
Large, IMO
In answer to one post previously, here is the solution in a container and also a photo of the label, It leaves me a little confused as much older...
Kurt , I am familiar with that movie of course, have the video also. But my humor values have nothing to do with enforcement of the rules. I know...
Unfortunately the Chinese are forging the coins on 90% silver for some of the scarcer dates, but this one has the appearance of a copy, so I doubt...
I do not think so either. The angles is hard to tell , but look at TRUST in the top photo , notice how the top of each " T" has double cross...
Just my usual gentle nature.
Kurt, I am glad you like your state, and I have absolutely zero , 0, zero envy for you. Bathe in its history not, but in ones future!
Not really. I really like Green, but he knows the rules as well as I do.
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