I can't say that I'm an expert on fireproof safe rating procedures. But, ratings are usually estimated using the most extreme conditions that can...
Everybody is always going on about desire for original surfaces. Well, that is what an "original" 90% silver surface looks like after 50 years.
There are a number of these stock certificates on Ebay, search "Boston Elevated Railway" in active and completed listings. Looks like they go for...
Where did you get 50,000 wheat cents?
What do you mean when you say that you "found" it yesterday? In grampas old things, in circulation, at a flea market?
Hah, I've thought about that as well, we have the technology. It would involve implementing pattern recognition algorithms like those used in...
Goes to show what I know. When I look at a coin that has green spots I figure that it must not have been cleaned. I figure that the whole point of...
I also do not mind cleaned coins. In fact, some of my favorite coins in the collection are cleaned out the wazoo. Like these: [ATTACH][ATTACH]...
This looks like a good opportunity to get your opinions on this flying eagle cent of mine that I have been wondering about. I've been working on a...
I guess it is a matter of semantics. They stopped sending coins back in a bag labeled ungradable (the origination of the term). Now they send them...
Clean!..Harshly!!..Properly!!...Conservation!!!....Clean!!...Clean!!...Clean!!.....ARRGGGHH! Sometimes I feel as though I belong to a hobby...
Find the local pawn shop or coin dealer that pays the best price for junk silver, dump that stuff off there. As for the rest, the upsides and...
Heck, I'd make some and ship them to you guys at cost if I had the time. Unfortunately, I started a new full time job a few months ago that...
I actually have access to a tablesaw, and my first inclination was to use it for PVC pieces. Then I looked at the size of the PVC, looked at the...
Hah! Thanks for the compliments guys. I wasn't sure whether anyone would find these things interesting or not, but figured there may be a couple...
I'm a penny roll searcher. I like to sort all of the cents by date and let the potential variety dates accumulate before I examine them (Feels...
Finally found a 1999 Wide AM cent! [ATTACH][ATTACH] [ATTACH] Unfortunately it has a few scratches and some corrosion, but it still has plenty of...
I have an electric toothbrush with a pulsating water pick. When I have a coin with dirt and/or muck on it I first hit it with that, usually does a...
Anyone with enough time on their hands to actively petition the covering of a 1/16 inch wide breast on a coin needs to find something better to do.
Depends on how wealthy (or broke) I am when that time comes. Most likely, I will sell my collections if I ever decide that I could use the money...
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