Then count your blessings and consider yourself extremely lucky ! Because it's not a myth, none of it. Just because it doesn't or hasn't happened...
@desertgem Jim, members who have not confirmed their email address do not have access to the Support and Feedback section - they cannot even see...
There's two concepts here that everybody needs to get into their heads. All metal corrodes folks, it is the very nature of metal to do so. Take...
Your coin has not been polished, at least not by the traditional sense of the word when used in numismatics, but it has been harshly cleaned with...
For what it's worth it doesn't make sense to me either. Nor do I know for a fact that THAT is what is happening. The only thing I know for sure is...
Yes, they will, and many have. But it takes a very, very long time. That said, the vast majority of all coins that any of you have ever seen that...
The second group are circulated coins. [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
I searched 3 different places where those pics you reference were linked to - none of them work - and I have no idea why because they should. In...
I wouldn't quite put it that way, but I do readily agree that he is battling against what some people want to believe. And no matter how much...
Good for what ? Do ziplocks help reduce the airflow that can get to coins ? Yes they do, but - plastic is air permeable - so no matter what you...
Just think about it for a few minutes - what do you clean those guns with ? You use a solvent that will dissolve copper - and pretty much every...
That's fine for you, but it is still dependent on what your personal definition of "cleaned" is - or actually means.
More like thousands or even tens of thousands. Fully 80% or more of all older coins have been dipped at least once in their life. Thus the vast...
I don't deny that it is possible for a copper coin, 19th century or otherwise, to have been stored in some way that allowed it to remain red -...
As you said above - That, is the problem. In today's world far, far, too many people assume, and incorrectly so, that "cleaned" and "harshly...
The question - Do you Consider a Dipped Coin to Be Cleaned? The answer, yes, undeniably. But not harshly cleaned. The problem - the very same...
Yeah me too. And I collected coins that way for decades. Problem is, those original cases and/or packaging are often, maybe even usually, one of...
I've been telling people that for more years than I can count. And at the end of the day that's really all we need to know. Well, that, and how to...
Taken as a whole, the average age of forum members is getting pretty close to 30. And it's been going down for years. Flattery will get you...
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