No Q-Tips. Read this thread, it will answer your questions. http://www.cointalk.com/t193708/
Kentucky - I wouldn't trust the validity of that test if I were you.
Sorry, but I don't think it's even close to being borderline. The wear looks quite obvious to me.
I understand your point Chris, and I like instant gratification as much as the next person, young or old. But, once you know that patience gets...
You have to understand what the problems are or what the downside is with the various storage products. The small ziplocks are just like flips in...
Honestly, that's about the worst mistake you can make. Next to knowledge, patience is the most important thing you can learn when it comes to...
They also have their problems. The coins get flip rub even easier in them because they are harder than the soft flips. And being hard, they have...
Clutchy - PVC residue, when it first develops, is all but invisible. That's because when it begins to be released from the plastic it does so in...
I assume you are talking about these, or some sized similarly -...
Cobs, as the Spanish colonial coins are called, didn't exist until well into the 1500's. And it's only the Spanish colonials that are called cobs,...
I agree with the 64, but I've seen plenty in 65 slabs that looked worse than that coin.
It's not true that only the blast white coins were put in the Unc holders eddie, there were plenty of toned coins in them as well. The main point...
No, it wouldn't. You would merely be moving your coins from 1 kind of storage method that can harm them to another storage method that can harm...
In simplest terms, why use anything that can harm your coins - regardless of their of their condition ? That just doesn't make sense to me.
Boy Howdy ! Where ya been stranger ? Was beginnin to think you got ate by the gators or something !
Honestly, if you're set on the album format - either an Air-Tite album with the coins in Air-Tites, or 3 ring binder, archival quality plastic...
You already got your answer, but I'll repeat it - yes.
Get rid of the Whitman folders.
Instead of acetone try xylene. Acetone can sometimes turn copper weird colors. And xylene will work better on any crud that contains any oils.
I guess that depends on how we define common. That is arguably one of the best known, or most widely known if you prefer, official counterstamped...
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