Not quite fixated here but I have taken scrap silver to my local dealer a couple times. Some of it's coin silver, most of it is sterling. And I...
Attention forum spergs: yes I know it would actually be a vacuum, or perhaps nitrogen. Not a hyperbaric chamber. But I'm trying to tell a story here.
Coins anywhere always tone. Especially silver and copper. Yes, I know you know this. If you don't want your coin to tone, buy gold. But does it...
Beautiful stuff in this thread, including several jaw-droppers. I haven't managed to land one yet, but it's near the top of my list. Part of the...
Sorry, I must have been sleepy last night. Here's the other one (I did post the correct links though): [ATTACH] Ha! I forgot all about Crazy...
Wow, there's such a thing as a PhD in numismatics?! ETA: Looking it up, here's the best thing I found...
Super-common Morgans, from a vendor notorious for airbrushed photos, and prepped for sale with a belt sander. $41 and $47 incl shipping, and these...
Note to self: 1. investigate unique toning possibilities. 2. PROFIT
Can anyone see where this is headed? It'll soon be like a certain category of crime, where what's (supposedly) in the criminal's mind at the time...
This thread is one of many leading me toward skepticism regarding the fine line between conservation and cleaning.
You'd have to put me in handcuffs to stop me from revising that finish. Naw, I just meant conserving. Really. That's all I meant. Seriously, my...
Why, yes. Yes we can.
Thanks for posting your ancient glass, Donna. It's always been a real source of fascination for me. That anything so fragile could last for...
One of the best things about this site is the assembled expertise. There's always someone with useful, relevant, detailed knowledge and it's a...
Can you even imagine such a thing? Smart-ass remarks are what keeps me coming back here. And by "here" I mean the internet, of course. Not the...
Probably a lot more than in 2010.
Oh, that William S. Clark! I know him well, as I'm sure many here do, given his history in mining. He built this notorious pile of a house on...
Thank you for posting. I have a thing for classical Greek vase painting. One of my favorite professors literally wrote the book on them. Okay, a...
Why is Maya Angelou on the back of the quarter? I didn't even know about this. Is the mint doing a series on modern writers? Of course I also...
Big, established sellers usually get the best prices, as they've developed a big market and they're very much a known quantity. But that sort of...
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