along with sodium, a metal so reactive that it explodes in contact with water. Minor quibble, it is the hydrogen evolved in the reaction with...
The later sovs are just bullion coins, they trade at a very small premium of melt in Britain which means that not only are they easy to find from...
Really cannot see it well enough to guess.
Sterling silver but in that condition they would go in my sterling scrap bag. You have about $22 in silver value.
Bear in mind that the coin would pay a years cash wages for a live in domestic servant at the time, and would be virtually useless as a...
And 100 years of moving pictures tells us that if there is a video, it was made to look as if it happened.
Is it just me or is is he both boring and irritating? 1 minute and 1 second was enough for me.
It's about 20 years old and might fetch $5.
One side says ' our lady of Lourdes' as an Italian abbreviation. the other refers to Pope John Paul II (His title in Latin). The faithful or...
I'd put it in my bank note collection if it came along for face value or very little over, but I'd not pay any useful premium to buy one. Other...
Sovereigns (one pound) still crop up today in local slang, as in "that'll be 3 sovs, guv". Meaning 3 pounds. Victorian slang terms for the...
The used rings are acceptable to all. You just say "it was left to me by my mother/grandmother/aunt "(depending on who is in fact dead) and the...
They are quite common in good condition because soldiers in WWII brought them home in 1945, either accidentally or as souvenirs, and at that point...
The one shown now is easier to see and looks a good fine. THe three coins shown originally have been edited out and this coin looks like it came...
Can't really see it through the plastic.
VG seems about the best you could say for any of them.
Somebody must read the inscriptions occasionally, the DG (for Dei Gratia, by the grace of god) was left off the 1849 florin, creating the well...
To be honest, I was expecting something more interesting. :-)
Looks like a good EF at a fair price. An above average amount of 50% silver George VI coins survived in high grades due to war time hoarding, and...
The correct punctuation woud be 'S' using single tick quotes. Double tick quotes are for indicating a quoted element of speech, the single quote...
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