Based on the run of this conversation, I will definitely try out some pure acetone for <2 minutes with subsequent repeated dunking in distilled...
Scrap the half dollar, make a $1 coin same diameter as the quarter but twice as thick. A two or five dollar coin could be even thicker, with an...
Thank you all for the advice and warnings, I appreciate the input!
I was recently handed a bag of coins from a relative, mostly European, but with a set of old Canadian cents mixed in. There are some great coins,...
When I see the above written for estate sales, what I can't imagine is that there is some huge pile of coins that no one has time to go through....
Thanks, Drusus. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone at CT who celebrates it!
I'm trying not to repeat too much of the above. Toning is metal reacting with certain compounds in the surroundings. The two most likely...
I still get about 5-10 wheaties per box, all common dates, the average rarely varies. Finally hunted down 10 rolls of halves, 1-1968, 2-1967....
Wait a minute, this thread is old!
About 2000. Collecting on and off for 27 years.
Thanks again for the excellent history. I've visited the world's largest operational bell, which is a short boat ride upriver from Mandalay,...
Nearly all the cent rolls I get are plastic machine wrapped. But in comparing results, they hardly differ from paper wrapped rolls in the...
Those sites are very informative, that was fun to puzzle out. Thanks for the tip.
This trivia encouraged me to go dig out my two Maria Theresa Thalers that I bought many years ago in Egypt and look at the edges, they have the...
Talk about a gray area!! So they can be all first strikes....except for the last one.
I travel quite a bit outside the US and can verify that observation. In transporting cash, and I have always been very picky about which $100...
No offense intended, I also grapple with such divisions of currency, sometimes it is useful to see it in terms of minutes or...
Well....it makes as much sense as a 60 minute hour?!:rolling:
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