One of the best books on US coinage I own is Walters Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of US and Colonial Coins, 1987, Original List Price $75. I...
Looking at the first photo it seems that just the rim is higher, and looking at the second photo , it appears that the diameter of that cent is...
Carlos, the weights you give are the nominal weights, but the tolerances for the Silver issue is 24.59 +/- 0.984 grams, and for the clad...
Obviously it is neither of the well known 1944 D/S. If it was to be offered as a previously unknown 44D/S it would have to be justified as the...
One of my coin club members has a relative working for one of the big 2 TPG. He applied for a job as a grader with his coin interest, but it...
Any hydrogen peroxide in the Nic-a-date formula is for foaming and cleaning purposes, not to differentially dissolve the metal. That is the ferric...
My problem with coins as an investment is that there is no accurate, reliable, and respected estimate of value, for exchange from a property to a...
My son who has a collection of Israel coins and commemorative medals suspect it is one of the latter, so might not be in coin references online....
I am closing this thread and will do so to any other that violates the rules against B/S/T outside of the advertising forum. Many of you know...
I bet the capsules aren't air or humidity tight. But some like toned ASE. They even tone in the Treasury Green top tubes, I have evidence :)
If you sold them as a 'pure food organic substance' produced before the big atomic testing of megatons proportion and organic chemical pollution...
Here is an interesting ad in the local CraigList. A person or company bought a XRF spectroscope and is doing mineral/metal ID and %. The prices...
What is the plastic material? What is the recycle number on the bottom. At least I hope it is labeled as some plastics are not good for coins.
The most often case is a formation of brass on the bronze cent by the following chemistry experiment that is widely done in middle and high school...
I Thank both of you. We all get carried away for some aspect at times or we would be boring people :)
A non-damaging test will cost almost as much as the coin. I guess its trust. Jim
Its Saturday evening , so lets play nice~ put the hissy-fits away , put a smilie to each other and enjoy the evening with family or something...
Just a friendly reminder that offers to buy/sell/trade are only allowed in the advertising section and there are limitations. Goes for both sides...
We have taken care of the problem, let's not acerbate it any further !
Stop this type of interaction. If you ( anyone) doesn't like an answer, either report it if it is against the forum rules, or ignore it.
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