OK, thanks. I just did a search and read that the outgoing president of Mexico took half the country's money and left, so the new President...
Thats weird. I thought Mexico was still using the peso.
I have several quarters and Kennedy half dollars with these circular grooves cut into them. Any ideas on where this damage came from?
I have a 1000 peso coin and 500 peso coin from Mexico worth $50 and $25, respectively, according to the Bing search below, where the exchange rate...
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Awesome!
After going to numista I noticed that for this silver dime any conditions less than "uncirculated" pegged the value about the same, or much less...
Excellent, thanks!
Last night I had a nasty, blackened, silver dime from 1957 in my hands ($1.75 in silver) and thought it was an ugly old thing I would simply...
What I meant by "lighten" was not anything to do with years of corrosion, but rather what polish compound would do to brand-new, clean metal....
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Sometimes it seems the metal polish I use will lighten up any copper based coins, like older pennies. But, it didn't affect a 2021 penny,...
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Does anyone know of a resource for Bahaman coins describing metal content? This coin feels like zinc, but maybe it's silver or nickel (crossing...
Please help, I couldn't ID this coin. It certainly didn't look like Japanese or Chinese coins, and didn't look like Bhutan, or a few others I...
Those are coins sold to collectors directly in pretty packages and were never put into circulation.
In a batch of old coins I found 6 dimes that were misaligned in just the last two or three pounds. All were late 1980's and early 1990's. Is it...
In a batch of dimes (6 pounds) I started noticing those towards the end. I started paying attention and found 6 like that in the last few pounds....
In case you want to save time, that looks like the before and after I hit it with metal polish (by hand) two times. Leather on a motorized device...
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