@offa the saxon As to the question asked in the thread title - there are many world coins that qualify as being a rarity. I've owned several...
Ya think ? Well, I get it, I understand the thinking, and in some cases it even proves true. The deciding factors are how severely the coin is...
Yours is fairly easy. As mentioned, put it between two pieces of thick leather and squeeze it in a vice. I'd avoid using the hammer route. I...
This thread plainly illustrates something I have written about many, many times - definitions, and the fact that everybody has their own personal...
Just a guess on my part, but maybe he's waiting for the right answer ?
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Two definitions, as short and sweet as they come, and both cover everything - not genuine, and fake. Now granted there's forty eleven other...
And here I was wondering if none of them were genuine and you were just being your regular tricky self ;)
With him - ya never know - he might !
I can't say with any degree of certainty but it looks like a modern cast fake to me, the kind often sold in tourist shops.
Honestly, I believe most people post because they want to participate with others in a hobby that all here enjoy for one reason or another. And...
Your the chemist so if you say so. But methanol, petroleum distillates, and toluene are all bad for coins to the best of my knowledge. And all...
The thing about Littelton is this, once ya buy something from them, you're gonna be buried with ads in the mail and coins sent to you, without you...
If he has any, I'm all for him posting some. But thing about corrosion is, unless it's a unique or unusual situation like the subject of this...
Yeah they're still legal tender. Demonetization is a legal technicality, one that requires the force of law, just as monetization does. But...
It's not that it's more aggressive really, just that all the different ingredients allow it to dissolve things that acetone by itself won't....
Even 20 years ago the NGC forum was the slowest (defined as least activity) of the numismatic forums. Yeah they had some great members, very...
As a general rule of thumb, any problem coin, damaged or some other problem, will be worth anywhere from 20-80% of what a problem free example...
There's always one thing you always have to take into consideration. No matter what dealer you pick, even those with the very best of reputations,...
Yeah it's unusual but it does happen. It's typically caused by storage methods, like something being placed on top a coin, either accidentally or...
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