Randy, friend, if that's ALL that it takes to drive you batty...
Reactions in salt water are a different animal. That's why I found the article interesting, it focuses on atmospheric reactions.
Looks like it's a little more complex than moisture in the air creating zinc dust. But I don't think it's contagious....
Mis-remembered which marketplace we were talking about, fixed. Yes they do, but the burden will be higher because they allow people to use their...
Seriously, what is PCGS going to do? Report it to fleaBay[SIC] (meant Etsy)? Do you think they get much better response than we do? Because PCGS...
Actually, that's not - quite - the law. 31 U.S. Code § 5112 - Denominations, specifications, and design of coins...
A friend who is a plumber asks that you shred them first, apparently flushed money makes a nasty clog and the "tip" just isn't worth the effort.
They're just a platform, so make sure you click through to the actual seller and check ALL the fees and conditions - lotsa fun stuff in there,...
The OCD in me wants to know how you decided who got placed in the upper deck and who was relegated to the lower one?
Might work for Liar's poker however, 5-of-a-kind over a pair.
One must also recall that proof dies were often used for business strikes after the last proof coinage was completed. However, the striking data...
4. Somebody paid to have it originally graded at NGC. Doesn't that highlight the absolute absurdity of the crossover game? The only people...
Yep. Fat finger/poor memory. Thing to recall is that they didn't have modern die steels, nor tools like indirect read thermometers and gas fired...
With the FEC, the 88-12 Copper-Nickel alloy was much harder than anything the mint had struck before. And the relatively large breast of the bird...
The more widely it circulated in China, the more wear and chop marks it acquired. There are some truly abysmal specimens.
@KBBPLL : From the ANA article "The second striking, at the mint’s new facility on North Seventh Street, occurred on October 9, 1792, yielding...
Cool... Matt has posted some of the stories on IG. [ATTACH]
It gets better. If you read the ledger, the first half dismes were spent that night at a coaching inn, almost certainly as a tip to the...
STOP REPEATING THAT DEBUNKED BULL **** The coins were struck from 75 Mexican silver dollars that Thomas Jefferson had deposited in the mint to be...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance", Essays: First Series, 1841
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