The Netherlands, and the coin of course was the Netherlands gold ducat ;)
Well there was that time when a few pieces of the roof over my lab in the attic ended up the neighbors' yards, but that's only because I wasn't in...
You're new here, so obviously you don't understand. But that is, shall we say, my seal of approval. In other words the coin is graded correctly.
You won't hear this often - that coin gets [ATTACH]
mlubao - maybe this will help with understanding. Your basic question was regarding the British monetary unit of a pound and a corresponding coin...
Planchet flaws, when severe enough, all by themselves, are sufficient and legitimate reason for a coin to be considered damaged and put in a...
You just did.
Ever since the world's very first mint the concept of seigniorage has been in place. In other words, coins were never supposed to be worth their...
To be honest with you I quit messing around with chemistry after I had figured out how to make nitroglycerin from scratch when I was 8 years old....
On this we disagree. First of all, I've personally seen to many examples of a coin getting a whitish cast (a completely unnatural look) to them...
For whatever it is worth, MS70 has been around for a long time. And while I do not know when it first came on the market I've read countless...
I do not claim to be an expert, and never have. All I do is share information that I have gathered over the years, like this -...
You say that you've written the Royal Mint, may I ask why ? I mean the silver rounds are being minted by the Franklin Mint, according to your own...
Just as an FYI - ammonia has a nasty habit of turning silver black.
Insider is correct, MS70 works wonders when it comes to removing haze from Proof coins. What's more, MS70 is far, far, safer to use than E-Zest.
You're right, I should have said they called it VZ-ST, which relates to a US AU grade. Even so, that is a step above our XF which is the German...
I cannot dispute your first hand report but I am indeed surprised by it. Not that they paid your claim, but that they just accepted, with no...
And those prices from that catalog, are what I was talking about above. They say ST is 5000 euro. But an ST example sold in March of this year...
In a nutshell, yes. On another subject, but related, typically you shouldn't pay a whole lot of attention to values listed in catalogs like...
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