At the risk of stating the obvious - the first step is weight. 10 troy ounces is 311 grams, or a hair less than 11 avoir. ounces.
If that were a 1982 or later copper plated zinc coin, I'd say there was just enough of a break in the plating to allow ordinary zinc corrosion to...
That deserves the "Doh" award for the most unnecessary advice of the decade![IMG]
Tony, you're forgetting that in order to be "BAM outbid", there must have been a higher proxy bid entered before yours. That's not typical...
No, I don't.
Hey Dan - re-read the 6th post in this thread! :D I think the post-bankruptcy K-Mart is the only direct descendant of the five and dimes from...
Welcom aboard montminr. With some variation this method can be used on silver coins. The dates are figments of some 12-year-old imagination...
I have a beta copy of a really nice world coin package that has all the 20/21st Century Krause countries, broken down to include monetary reforms,...
For anyone with a significant number of feedbacks, I don't consider "checking the feedback" completed until I have run the seller's ID through...
What can you say, except "Wow, look how reasonable the S/H is!" :D
The first five One Yen auctions - about 2/3 of the way down the page - all picture coins dated Meiji 8 (1875). Is it my imagination, or do they...
Exactly. However, statistically the odds are 315-39 that it was produced in '82. :D
Considering the geography - Arctic rather than African - prehaps a reindeer?
Welcome aboard NOS. Actually, either 1299 or 1300 can appropriately be "translated" as 1882, but 1299 is more commonly referred to that way as...
Yoo hoo - [IMG]
That may be, but if they did, this is not one of them. The legend is about economics and trade, not athletics.
The legends say it's from the Republic of China (Taiwan version), issued in conjunction with an economic and trade conference. It is not a coin,...
Both PCGS and NGC provide webspace for such sets. To join a PCGS set your coins must be slabbed by them. To join an NGC set your coins can be...
Actually, some of the best bargains I have gotten on EBay were auctions where: the seller honestly did not know what he was selling; andhis...
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