As an add-on, don't think I admire the Hunts, but they do have strong mercenary sense of business. More than a decade ago, they bought land here...
No one even had an idea of how much was there before the melting started, so no. There will be numismatic collectors and those who want to make...
Sounds like CU used company lawyers and the plaintiffs used real lawyers. IMO.
I appreciate your apology, and I felt it was well done. I hope everyone will stop criticism /praise on it as it seems to be a resolved issue,...
I talked to a very elderly collector in San Diego about 20 years ago , who actually was involved in it. Once it was discovered they raided the...
I find it handy to think of a mint punch as a branding iron "D". "S" and then brand a piece of leather once and then look to see how I have to...
No, neither am I. I do see the slight separation on the southwest part of the straight vertical, but it it was separated serif due to a repunch,...
Yes, but I also adhere to the old saying , if you hear hoofbeats, think of horses rather than zebras. I din't use the adjectives you did, but I...
I do not see anything that would indicate it is a cent on a dime planchet. I am in the zinc lab experiment group. Remember that if heat is...
The various gold alloys will have different specific gravities.General range, as exact range will need to know if alloyed with silver or copper....
PCGS does attribute the Top 100, 50, 40 lists on VAM World, but they do not do so by rarity alone. The extent of the varietal difference weighs...
It seems that the 2 parties have reached an ending to the problem, and as only they know what happened, the forum can not contribute any more,...
Since the original question concerned the "rumor" that some swiss gold was derived from melting teeth that had mercury in the dental work. If...
Not by organic chemists I am sure. DNA unzips ( denatures, melts) under 200 degrees F. for a PCR. Cooling back, it will generally self heal. PCR...
The mercury would evaporate out under 700 degrees and would stay out until the temperature decreased under that , by which time the gold would be...
Most chemistry classes mention alloys as rearrangement of the metals used into a different crystal structure than either one separately. This is...
Yes, when the mercury cooled below its boiling point it would condense back into a liquid, but probably on the walls of the room it was being...
Gold melts at 1947 deg.F., but mercury boils at 674 deg.F. If they melted the gold into bars or such, all of the mercury would have boiled away...
IMO, it was first the currency change ( stronger Euro vs. USD, then the Euro weakened in their market, but PM seemed to be holding the level for...
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