Sorry. But I'm predicting it'll be a dark brown oxide again in a few years. Currently, though, I'm making a rainbow of alloys. I need all the...
Thanks for the info. I like how some coins have room for some of the words, and some coins just abbreviate them. I guess they need tiny...
Thanks for the info. That was my second guess right after I hit send.
Thanks! And I should have guessed! I read all about the decimalization at Wikipedia, but didn't think "new penny" was necessary for the public...
Here is the Canadian 1969 penny on the left, and the mystery 1977 on the right (after being cleaned up).
1977
I've tried Wikipedia's entries for Canada, Ireland, UK, New Zealand and Australia, but couldn't find this coin. It's a bit bigger than the...
Thanks for the info, everyone. I'll try not to use those coin machines ever again.
By my math the Dollar Store would become the Five And Dime Store again. (Or just the Dime Store.) I wish China and Japan would do that first....
Peso, Paso, tom eh toe, tom ah toe
OK, thanks. I just did a search and read that the outgoing president of Mexico took half the country's money and left, so the new President...
Thats weird. I thought Mexico was still using the peso.
I have several quarters and Kennedy half dollars with these circular grooves cut into them. Any ideas on where this damage came from?
I have a 1000 peso coin and 500 peso coin from Mexico worth $50 and $25, respectively, according to the Bing search below, where the exchange rate...
entry post Thanks, you rock.
Awesome!
After going to numista I noticed that for this silver dime any conditions less than "uncirculated" pegged the value about the same, or much less...
Excellent, thanks!
Last night I had a nasty, blackened, silver dime from 1957 in my hands ($1.75 in silver) and thought it was an ugly old thing I would simply...
What I meant by "lighten" was not anything to do with years of corrosion, but rather what polish compound would do to brand-new, clean metal....
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