All that gunk might come off, leaving you with a higher-grade coin. I do NOT consider this "cleaning" coins: smear plain Vaseline heavily on...
No, not necessarily gold and silver -- the coins that you (RedRaider) know best. And you confirmed this, "...I figured this one would bring the...
From a purely economic standpoint, sell it and buy several other investment-grade pieces that are more liquid, and more likely to maintain their...
Ha! Some people buy the story every day. "First strikes," etc.
Be sure to take them out of the slabs first.:woot:
Maybe $5 in fine; zero in that condition.
The same thing happened years ago with the gold coins and ingots from the S.S. Central America. Also, for some strange reason, no one makes an...
That's it -- Krause KM-340. State of Chihuahua.
HOT tap water. Heat usually speeds up chemical reactions, therefore the neutralization occurs sooner.
I'm no expert either, but the word "States" looks all distorted, and pulled to the right, especially the two T's. Similar images on eBay show the...
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Agreed. Most dealers consider cheap foreign minors as a time-killing, space-filling nuisance.
Worldwide, the number of medals and tokens commemorating tragedies, disasters, assassinations, etc., is immense; just look at Kennedy material, or...
1996-S Kennedy (key date) and 1982-S Washington 250th Anniversary. Both are 90% silver, both are circulated impaired proofs taken from a bullion...
Google further, and you find that the "MM" company was renamed in 1957, so the medal dates from before 1957.
Sorry, sold out. Mebbe next year.
Due to a warm, rainy spring, we have a bumper crop of nits already this year. I will pick you a bushel and FedEx them anywhere in the U.S. for...
Nothing wrong with that, but I would list four coins at a time, from a single country, as a test strategy.
Wigwam, there's another factor at play here, and that's how much you will be taxed, with an auction in the U.S., versus an auction in the U.K. I...
If you assume gas @ $4, 8 gallons = $32. Has an S&P Index fund multiplied 128 times since 1964?
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