When you experiment, is there any way you can photograph ( maybe with an old point/shoot ) the setup with your new superdoop camera :)
Unless its the lighting, I do not see how a rubber band would produce a negative effect . It looks more like a tape problem.
No, hard plastic doesn't have PVC plasticizers that cause the damage. Some flexible plastic holders do not have PVC either as they are different...
At one time, many years ago, they were usually 10-30% premium. Then it was discovered that many -if not most- were sent to banks in southern...
Here is my comparison pair. [IMG]
Not in my experimentation, and the original formulation is for organic material so I would not expect it to be effective. Carbon spots are from a...
Acetone can not dissolve or react with metals without a user imposing environmental/chemical situations far from normal coin environments....
They would be late to that ball game. Lucky if they get bail in the end.
"As shocking as it is to find out that almost none of the metal supposedly stored for customers ever actually existed. At least there is hope that...
Lefort's process to produce ethylene oxide is a catalytic one, so the silver should not be consumed.
It just says to me that even the Hedge funds, have thrown in the towel on holding physical gold. They see more and deeper pain in the future as...
I think you were correct in blaming the paper. The mint does not mention anything I have seen about using acid free archival paper. The green lid...
The BRIC nations idea of a replacement originated when the US was in the middle of the then recession and oil and trade had China, Russia, and...
San Diego Coinarama on Saturday was heavily attended, and the prices on non-slabbed coins were good. Slabbed coins were about -10% off the...
The large bullion companies can't work on cash/physical commodity alone due to this reason. Most of their expenses stay no matter what, so they...
Sustaining or raising the value is only important to collectors, dealers, or auction houses, yet the major effects on the commodity itself is by...
$20 at yesterday's coin show ~just labeled common/circulated. at least a dozen tubes.
At first I thought it was only plating problems as there appear to be a lot of plating bubbles on the coin. But the mm could be some die...
MD imo.
I would certainly prepare a written resume of this with as much documentation as possible for when the "Office of Foreign Assets Control for...
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