Acetone, being a solvent, is good for removing things like paint or lacquer or adhesive residue. Its effects on plain old circulation grime may...
Looks pretty good. I'd say you improved the appearance (removed the crud) without messing up the original brown color by overscrubbing it. Well...
It is definitely a nice find, considering it came from circulation.
Zoid- if you bought them because you thought they were pretty, and you knew you weren't getting a real Schoolgirl dollar pattern from the 19th...
Sorry, I overlooked your question there. Personally? I'd not have much interest in these, but would probably go there in the neighborhood of...
Indeed. I also picked up a late Roman bronze in one of his holders, which was from a 1960s British hoard discovery, and had the find spot and...
Centsles has a long, long history, and something of an unsavory reputation in places like the PCGS forums. His self-slabbing does fringe on the...
Not worthless. Worth a little something as exonumia/novelties, I reckon. As modern fantasy issues, these are obviously not worth even a fraction...
Yeah, I know. Axial lighting setup, yada yada yada. I'm taking baby steps. Haven't gotten around to all that just yet. I have at least upped...
PS- I'm not sure what's going on with the rim anomalies you pointed out, but I will say that if that is a cast coin, it's a pretty high quality...
It looks OK to me on the authenticity front (caveat: I'm no specialist, so take that with the proverbial grain of salt). Does appear to be...
Wow. Here's one. Stacks-Bowers images, shot through scuffy slab: [IMG] My own feeble attempt at showing the color and prooflike attributes...
That is a Triple-S, for sure.* *= "Super Sweet Susie.
Still a neat find. That's a Monticello-reverse and not a Bicentennial, which is saying something, I reckon.
A quarter-real from the Mexican state of Chihuahua, I believe. KM #344, copper, struck 1860-1866....
Indeed. I use MS Word, create a table with 1.6" by 1.6" cells, type in the info, print out on card stock (since regular paper is too flimsy to...
W...O...W That's almost as cool as the Pompeii aureus. Almost.
Hm. I stand corrected, then. But am I mistaken in remembering that there was once a separate category for them? I see they have a category for...
I've had those creep into coin rolls of US cents before. They're pretty common, though obsolete now. This type was the last of the British...
PS- it's nice to see when somebody here has actually found a legit error coin, and not mistakenly identified a damaged coin as an error.
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