Ok, thanks for the heads-up. I tend to find that many things are more expensive in Flag than other areas. We have rented to a lot of students,...
Did you sell them at a coin shop or to a person? I have a bag or 2 that I was saving until I retired :) and now I don't really want to stare at...
As a followup, on ebay you can look in the category Coins & Paper Money > Paper Money: US > Small Size Notes > Hawaii, North Africa and see...
Also on the subject, special notes with yellow/gold seals were used in North Africa and Europe for the same reason during WWII. Seemingly a...
A nice reference on all types of doubling. You can get real numb-brained after reading :) A Ken Potter expert article IMO....
I do not see how the wave like impressions could be a result of either multiple strikes, strikes through rags or whatnot. Probably only the person...
A full page ad in Discover magazine ~Sept, 2006 "America's Lost Masterpiece , the $100 UNION" Original sketches by George T. Morgan, of Morgan...
"Along the edge of the coin/token should there be ridges like on a dime or quarter? This does not have any but I do see very fine lines that are...
You sound like a very careful person, so this may not apply. Dessicant bags or cartridges will absorb moisture up to a certain point; then may...
One easy nondestructive test to see if possible or not is to weigh the coin. A 1854 Twenty D. Kellogg should weigh between 33.3 and 33.42 grams....
In the last half century or so, collectors have gone from "cleaning is OK", to "cleaning is forbidden" to " cleaning is bad, conserving is good"....
A very limiting factor might be the amount of time and money you have to spend on collecting. Many times, a person starts with one area and is...
There is an archival polyester tape ( both single and double sided ) 3M product which is used in mounting or certain repairs, claims it has none...
I think the lowly mylar 2X2 is getting a bad reputation here. Take a close look at a new 2X2. The inner lining is a continual sheet of mylar. When...
From Breen's Encycopedia: When the 1921 dollar coinage turned out to be the old morgan design, Farran Zerbe who had a large political influence...
I Just read in an old issue of coin values a night ago that as late as 1934, there was not any cent issue that was more than $2 uncirculated. I...
I guess anybody can have a bad day at work grading coins, or did someone manage to switch the coins after being sealed in holder? Just thought it...
Maybe it is too gentle for cleaning off that must crust :) I was really smiling at some of the combinations he used...oxy-clean in a crock pot...
Sorry, lost the tail of the url, and wrong one at that. USE http://clean.ancients.info/joe/index.htm
I looked at the URL for biox conservation fluid which is an ancient coin cleaning site I gather and then not convinced of the material, googled it...
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