The paper money stolen in this case should make it all too easy to pinpoint the thief. [IMG] INVESTIGATING AGENCY: USPS TYPE OF INCIDENT:...
Wife got you on a short leash? How d'ya like that? . . . a two'fer . . . I kill me.
I agree, #2 is noticeably better than #1. As for decay time before pulling the trigger, I think you should jack it up to an hour . . . ....
By virtually any applicable standard, that is a rather limited, if not distorted definition of "alchemy".
To me, the luster looks washed out much closer to some of the characters in the legend, stars and the date than it should for any mint state...
I can hear him talking to the object of his desires now . . . what was that quote? Oh, yeah . . . George McFly . . . "You are my density".
Check it for one of the DDO's . . .
Without spending more time trying to convince you that this is a strike-thru, I'll simply state that, given the thickness of the missing material,...
Sort of . . . both the rag and the planchet can compress even more under even greater striking pressure, but they both share the burden in...
I daresay fire is not a durable store of value.
Think of the grease filled dies again . . . if those recessed are filled, where exactly does the metal go that was intended to fill those...
Don't forget though, that gold was a valuable commodity millenia before we had an energy economy. Many folks lose sight of the fact that the...
When the cost of nuclear bombardment becomes "cheap", yes, it might then be time to worry.
That's no bite at all, @eddiespin. The cloth merely displaced planchet metal. Consider that cloth is a solid, while grease is only a semi-solid,...
Yeah, I imagine it has to be some sort of fabric the press operators keep on hand for wiping grease & grime off of the tooling, or a rag left...
Certainly not on the press floor. That would violate OSHA regs . . . and common sense.
Concur . . . looks like thru cloth.
Looks like an ostrich . . . with a really short neck.
Consider, if you will, that the cost of polishing a zinc blank before plating would exceed the saved difference in material cost between the...
A great-looking example. Surely the result of delamination of the plated planchet before strike.
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