If you want to have your mail held, fill out two request forms. Leave one at the post office and put the other one in your mailbox for the mail...
A date and/or mint mark can be chemically pulled from any coin - copper, nickel, silver or gold. The process of minting results in different...
The 3rd and 4th steps on the left are joined, not separated. It's an AFS nickel.
But sell the slab, not the coin? Ethics aren't something that are changable. A thing is either right OR wrong. I would say that having an XF...
So, chemically treating a nickel is all right but chemically treating or touching any other coin is a no-no, worthy of banishment to the darkest...
10 years late on an answer but soaking Palmolive Dishwashing Liquid will darken fresh copper. Use a mild acid to clean the cents, then soak in...
From what I read in other posts, anybody buying this set would send in everything to be upgraded anyway so this seller just saved someone a lot of...
Using NicaDate will effectively ruin your coin. If it's so worn that you need this type of help just to read the date, the coin is pretty much...
This is what full steps look like. Does yours? [img]
These are NOT the same coin. And, what is facebook bidding? Is there a Facebook auction page? [ATTACH][ATTACH]
We all know they're not real, but if they are made out of real coins then most of the silver is probably still there. If he sold a two faced...
It's not mercury metal that's dangerous, it's the vapors from heated mercury that will poison you. Play with it all you want, just don't heat it...
Centralized distribution points are supposed to be more efficient but they just introduce more possibilities of mis-handling along the way. There...
Isn't Tarn-X great? [img]
But you still have the problem of counterfeit coins in counterfeit slabs.
This is just another reason to justify why I said that grading is BS. Standards are different for different series. Standards are different for...
There are tons of them around, all dated 1865 and showing a bust of Emperor Maximillion. They exist in various degrees of detail. I have on that...
IMHO a toned coin, AT or NT, is no different from a corroded, altered or otherwise damaged coin. They're no way "as minted" and have no place in...
Lighthouse (Leuchturm) does have adjusting/sizing rings for the round holders....
I don't think it has been blasted or chemically treated in any way. Why? Because there is no evidence that the facing parts of the rim have been...
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