Congratulations. :thumb: I was 0 for 5. :(
The surface looks like a casting to me.
My question is what was in the bottle that the cork came from? Cork absorbs moisture and there could possibly be potentially damaging residue in...
For political reasons, arising from economic theories about how to deal with the depression in which the entire world was mired. Some people...
Make that three - you forgot fat. :smile
Probably some type of acidic or caustic chemical reaction. The opening bid price is $15.35 ($9.95 plus $5.40 Priority Mail with required minimum...
[img] to CoinTalk austin. Look at this thread, and the other threads linked from it, for some exhaustive discussions of the subject.
Here is a link to the first hit of 599,000 from a Google search on "hong kong coin catalog". Enjoy! [img]
Finding a home with a $2,000 down payment in Orange County is quite an accomplishment - three years ago the median price in the county was in...
It's soooooooooo much easier to locate a coin in a catalog when you know its date. :kewl:
Obviously they did, unless the slab is a fake. I think your question is really "Should PCGS have graded this an MS69?. I'm not very good at...
I'm going to take a WAG and say that it's a token somehow related to the separatist movement in Quebec, since it has the word in French, not...
What makes it different is appearance, pure and simple; and the way collectors feel about a coin's appearance, which directly affects the demand....
[img] to CoinTalk sici. What's bad about having chemically cleaned your coin is that whatever value it had has been cut to a fraction, since...
Ed - I sent you a PM at 7:42 p.m. (PST) yesterday, answering one of your questions and stating that I didn't understand what you meant in another...
The vast majority of my walkers were taken from circulation (yes, I am that old :rolleyes:), and the others have been purchased at coin shows,...
I dabbled in collecting US coins for many years, starting about 50 years ago, in varying degrees of seriousness. Several years ago I began...
Krause says "B" is indeed the mark for the mint at Bern, Switzerland.
The CC Mint building was a museum last time I was in Carson City, about 10 years ago. A very interesting tour, but obviously no chance to see it...
Yours is dated Republic Year 3 (1914). The six characters above the bust of Yuan Shih-kai on the obverse, reading right to left, give the date,...
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