The plating is so incredibly thin, it can probably be heated and melted without melting the zinc core.
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This is what the Amazon ad says: MS-70 8 oz. Coin Cleaner (Qty = 1 Bottle) safe to use on gold, silver, nickel, copper, brass and bronze. will...
.08 cents (and 2 cents earlier) and a religious medallion. .12 on Tuesday ALL in the slot, breaking my honey hole grill streak. [ATTACH]
Agree on the VG 08. However for $10 you can get a little better grade. The "book" might say $10 but $5 is more likely. As for the 1909 without the...
2.5 grams means it is a zinc coin. 3.11g for copper cent. So it is a small date, Philly zinc, which in mint state has value, because when they...
That can be determined by a photo. If the plating was removed after it was struck, or if it was struck without the plating. Of course the odds are...
Coins are minted in a very high speed process. The odds of a circular object falling into a perfectly symmetrical spot on the reverse while...
It's impossible his coin has RTM. You are contradicting yourself. If I recall from the other threads on this, the marks were smaller, in a...
No. It's damage. Read some of the threads here on this very subject and you will understand why it is impossible for your coin to be a RTM. Try...
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Update dollar coins and halves. I'm not bragging. No one is more surprised, shocked and delighted than I am. As I never expected this. [ATTACH]
There are regular 74-S business strikes, but yours looks nothing like that. Proof coin as already posted.
E-Z-EST contains sulfuric acid and thiourea, and MS-70 doesn't have acid. They are not the same. Not all coin dealers are experts. On the MS 70 it...
Trying some different photos. It's difficult to accurately reflect what it looks like in hand, with just a cheap digital camera. [ATTACH]
Same coin, different photos. [ATTACH]
I don't know how these products work, and if some are safe or not. But if something removes "toning", aren't atoms of oxidized metal being...
Going through my normal futile routine of looking for a 2019-W coin. (0 for the year.) And I hit this beautiful 1972-S proof. Reverse is nicer,...
Yes my mistake. I meant the lettering IN GOD WE TRUST on the obverse. Sorry.
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