Question for people with milk spots: was your coin stored in a dark place or was it exposed to light?
"An investment operation is one which, upon thorough analysis, promises safety of principal and an adequate return. Operations not meeting these...
Since you ask, "rigmarole" or as a variant "rigamarole".
As long as they figure it out eventually. One guy in Baltimore got arrested for using a $2 bill: the Best Buy clerk thought it was counterfeit,...
I like this place! http://www.amazon.com/Papal-Coins-Allen-G-Berman/dp/0970824211 Thank you both. I'll have my wife translate the French page.
Which mint was the first to use it?
The book that comes with the UHR Double Eagle emphasizes how the Mint switched from using the venerable Janvier reducing lathe to using a...
Before the Elizabethan milled coins of 1561, Cellini was using a screw press to make coins for the Pope. Does anyone know of reference works that...
I don't know whether things tarnish faster in safe deposit boxes, but it's at least plausible. The neighboring safe deposit boxes probably have...
Water jet? Something a bit faster than the stream from a faucet, but nowhere near enough to damage the silver, kind of like the jet attachment on...
I read one person's opinion that the spots are silver chloride, which is close to insoluble. If part of the processing is a hydrochloric acid...
Thank you!
Mexico's silver Libertad.
I'm sorry -- what does redressing a die mean?
The question is whether silver and gold will be valuable if the economy goes into hyperinflation, which would damage the routine economic activity...
"Spot" is the minute-by-minute wholesale (in effect) price for large quantities on the professional market. Bullion coins often trade for more...
Thank you both! This forum is great for getting informative and well-thought-out answers.
For enjoyment, a set is more than the sum of its parts, at least including the fun of patiently accumulating all the pieces need to fill it out....
GREAT information! Thank you very much. It answered one of my outstanding questions, which is how long the nickel shim lasts (15 coins), and is...
I got more impressed when I read the Wikipedia article about electron-beam lithography. A lot of the article requires college-level physics, but...
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