Satinidollar, Thanks for donating. To get into the archives and find this I had to take out a 7 day free subscription. So that's what you must...
Well finally after a cold shoulder from the Royal Canadian Mint who never bothered to reply to my question, twice, I gave up. Then risking a 7...
Satinidollar, Here's your evidence. You can donate $10 US to cointalk! Well persistance paid off. It seems some poor Mint employee got screwed...
It's just a rumour. I can't find any references. THat's why I'm posting here. If I asked you to make a list of good die errors in increasing...
Try finding one! Wikipedia has a nice article on Canadian Silver dolllars, but leaves out 1966 small beads and Diving Goose. Globe and mail...
I've heard a rumour that the error silver dollars, 1966 small beads, 1967 double struck and diving goose and other errors were made by mint...
[IMG] 1908 C Sovereign, Where was the metal mined?...
Copper will sweat out of gold, so often a copper gold coin will tarnish coppery red. These Egyptian coins look like different alloys rather than...
Thanks for the Wikipedia ref. No where does it say Chlorargyrite is metallic. It says: "Typically massive to columnar in occurrence it also has...
Your fake is cast. That's not salt water corrosion. Those are bubbles!
Silver Chloride or Bromide or a mixture is not metallic. Horn silver leaves a greenish corrosion and in pokable amounts is is greenish white to...
I give up
Here's the obverse: [IMG]
Here's a 1920 Jubilees sovereign. Argghhh The obverse didn't post. I'll try again. [IMG]
May all your scratched coins be "die scratched"
weigh the damn thing!
At least tokens were used for exchange. Bottle caps!!! Just shows that if anything stays still long enough, someone will collect it!!!
Destroying old labels and prices paid destroys the provenance of the piece.
A well focused electron beam should leave a micron sized blemish that's not eye visible. I presume, but don't know of any literature on this, but...
I've been a mineral collector all my life and recently got interested in gold specimens. The gains in the dope stocks, then permitted a return to...
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