Those problem spots look like old, fossilized paint. REALLY OLD paint is tougher than you might guess, esdpecially if you're attempting to remove...
I'm gaga crazy about metal detecting... my lovely partner would leave out the part about the MD! I'm lucky enough to live in an area of the...
A lot of people like us will run out and grab anything they can (or can't) afford, figuring the market still has a bit of helium in it yet, or...
Yes! That's a really fun way to see and acquire different coins!
At least as far as the date is concerned, the 2009 penny is a wonderful, clean, problem-free strike; almost perfect. And well-photographed.
The one I found detecting got a lot more to offer than the thousand-dollar slug, and it's ten years older! I'd furnish pics, if I had the barest...
That's a bit confusing.... paw the stable floor once for "Yes", or twice for "Yes".
Are these silver coins?
Thanks for the valuable inf. What was the offending PVC article?
It strikes me that all of this publicly-shared information exposing fakes is a really wonderful resource for people trying to do it better, next time!
With regard to the Above 1805 25c; whether it's been cleaned or not is a "so what?", given the overall well-circulated condition. Would saying...
Is it fair to wonder in public, what is the highest auction price ever paid for a coin chiefly constituted of aluminum, or as here in...
Opinion: zinc pennies are only of any account if you have 100 of them and wish to obtain a $1 bill.
It's known as classical (Graeco-Roman) design, which in those days was considered quite acceptable. Nowadays, we have nickels that rival East...
Lets bring back zinc-galvanized pails!
I give my brother all of the keys I find. He takes them to a scrap dealer, for the brass melt value. That way my wife is assuaged, when I bring...
Anything is possible, I think.....
It wasn't a zinc penny.
Got it; you work behind the register at a WAWA, on Fri. and Sat. nights!
I've specialized in a couple of year sets, both Victoria and post-Victoria. If they don't have any precious metal content, they're just not that...
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