VCC! Very Cool Coin.
Please forbear with regard to the above, for as we say here in The Garden State: this particularly repetitive skein of reparte' is ..."gettin'...
All Is Explained in the Unread Thread. But here's my theory: this guy at the Mint who's been doing all these copper nickels sub rosa even runs...
Dear god! Some sicko coin-presser who works at the US Mint must be staying after hours and running off batches of copper nickels and furthermore,...
It may have spent the night in a jelly jar with some lemon juice and a bunch of pennies.... even the dents get plated.
Bugle mouthpieces are much flatter than this guy.
Mouthpiece of a trumpet or something, I'm guessing. I've found a couple of pearl- inlaid valve keys. Rings are always cool!
I wonder if it is possible to solder two shaved-down coin sides together?
Is it possible that the piece of metal you found fell off of some high-performance US Air Force jet? A little farther out is the possibility that...
I am a metal detectorist whose specialty is contemporary American coins. WITHOUT EXCEPTION, every nickel that I've found and dug up, that had been...
The "golden bee" was an emblem of the Merovingian Dynasty; the first line of ruling kings of what we now regard as France, proper. These were...
If this cleaner is a strong alkaline, it contains a significant amount of the unstable molecule, "(OH-)". (OH-)'s only goal in life is to grab a...
That's quite an impressive hoard of ancients. What proportion of them have been cleaned? And for the more-ignorant (including Y.T.), what is the...
If you observe the spacing between "IN GOD WE TRUST" and the space beneath the bust of Lincoln and the rim of both coins, they appear very close,...
Explanation: Go back in the thread to the post I submitted re: razor-sharp looking 1938 Buffalo Nickel found in salt water surf. Either that, or...
This is the start of uninformed mass hysteria; in this case concerning brown nickels.
One possibility: it was dropped, sat on the ground (deep grass is an ideal environment for this) for a while and then was found and returned to...
Every year, when my spouse and I and a bunch of our friends (8- 10 of us) go out for dinner on New Years,I almost always have brought a $2 bill...
Wire-brushed, by their appearance. Funny thing; they only appear to have been hit on the obverse (dated) side.
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