Just curious - Am I correct in assuming that when you say "guess the grade", you don't want the poster's personal opinion, just what grade the...
Your "mint roll" was actually wrapped by a contractor, not Mint employees. A canvas bag full of thousands coins was dumped into a hopper, which...
Hey Spencer - click on the link in RichiieB16's post and see the seller's photos. I'm no expert, and the photos aren't the best I've ever seen,...
How many other bidders were there? According to their feedback, how many regularly buy currency? In my own specialty, when I see several...
Just remember - those are the puffed up prices PCGS quotes for coins slabbed by them as a form of advertising how wonderful they are. Real world...
Without seeing the coin in question that's a pretty tough question. Some of the possibilities are:It's a counterfeit :headbang:It's an...
Thanks budgood.
Would someone please explain to an old duffer what the [img] a chatroom "Bot" is? If my guess is right, that it is an automated program of some...
[img] to CoinTalk. It's called ">>reprocessing<<" and statistically you are at least as likely to win thousands of dollars in the lottery than you...
Hi Donnie and [img] to CoinTalk. The primary source for information on world coins is the Standard Catalog of World Coins by Krause & Mishler,...
[img] But Manganese (element 25 on the Periodic Table) is quite a bit different from Magnesium (element 12), which is lighter, more dangerous...
There is a common high school chem lab experiment about electroplating that uses cents as test materials. I used to post the website...
Liar, liar, pants on fire! :eek: That's downright [img] fraud, posting a link to the over-priced PCGS price list as proof that a third-tier (at...
What's your source for that claim? I can't find any source that says magnesium was ever used in US coins. The Red Book and the US Mint, among...
Here's a good starting point.
I don't believe that any British Commonwealth country used an "S" mintmark, and I know that the San Francisco Mint never produced any pennies. By...
The reason people keep asking for larger pictures is not that they don't know how to use the thumbnails - it's that even in their enlarged state...
Since most of my collection consists of not especially valuable coins, I use ordinary 2x2s, inserted in the 20-section plastic notebook pages...
[img] to CoinTalk JDR. Your coin has probably been "spooned". Does it resemble the dime shown in this post? Click on the "Search" button...
In a 2004 posting in another forum a well-known collector and cataloger of slabs and slabbers, noted that he had seen a single scan of a GLGS...
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