The brass plated planchets are just the result of using the plating solution too long. It is supposed to plate the zinc blanks with pure copper...
Yes $8 was a good price for that one, It's probaly a $15 - $20 token in that condition.
He hasn't shown us the $8 DH-35, and he didn't tell us what he paid for the Nottinghamshire DH-7 that he dd show us.
I think the Nottinghamshire DH-7 is very nice. What is the edge? A 1791 DH-35 from where? When you discuss Conders you have to list the county...
No, not if you didn't send them in to them within the first 30 days. When the coins were actually struck is of no importance, it is when the TPG...
I agree, they should be hit with rocks, or at least buried under rocks.
True but mercury chloride fumes/vapors would be even worse.
Actually not. I am strictly a collector when it comes to my early copper and Conder collection and I strive for completeness not grade in my...
There was only one 42/1 DDO die used in Philadelphia and only one used in Denver. The "different degrees" of 1955 (and 1972 and others) is due to...
They also used heat to dry the felt driving the mercury out in the form of fumes that the workers would breathe in.
Probably because reply comments are clearer and more effective when you quote the section and then respond rather than inserting your comments...
Well I do tend to repeat myself. :)
I don't know if they have "dirt" on me, (Unlikely because I really don't care what people know about things I have done. There is very little I...
Well it really isn't that dangerous. There are a lot of things people use or do every day that are a lot more dangerous than Mercury. I wouldn't...
Interesting thought, yes I suppose they could. I would say suggest it to them but I'm not sure they were have the time now to strike the 2015...
Agreed, 500,000 cents is about $111 a year. If that $111 had been invested each year in something that at least kept up with inflation, after 45...
Maybe, if I would ever stop hanging out on the internet and actually work on writing.
I have a silver clad coin as well. It's a Conder token Middlesex 181 in what they call "Bath metal" It is a copper core with two fairly thick...
Yes I do, and INS was the first grading service. And yes I cover NCI, it began in December of 1984 (Although in their own grading guide, they say...
As insider pointed out you missed Photgrade, but it only went through AU because as they pointed out (correctly I think) you can't show the...
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