Thanks, I'm sure I will remember that (Anderson Cooper eye-roll)...:)
Be careful if you drink expensive coffee...
So does aluminum. Surface chemistry is a difficult field. And actually we have seen some beautifully toned nickels on here.
Mine was just a deductive guess. Wait for some of the gurus who have worked at the mint (or have a good understanding of the minting process).
I would guess the dies clashed and as a result of this, they rotated.
More reading would be good. Also, knowing how many coins we are talking about here is important. Advice on how to deal with 10 coins would be...
I'm sure people would be willing to buy if they had some idea of what is in them.
Hence, "market grading"?
Now just from a chemistry standpoint, nickel is pretty active, copper is moderately inactive and silver is quite inactive. Interesting.
Sorry to get back to the original topic, but I've been thinking about that nickel. Now nickel is a moderately reactive metal, so I don't think...
Please someone correct me if wrong. Proof coins are non-circulating issues made for collectors. They use special dies, special presses that...
Both curmudgeons and conspiracy-types are fun to read, but they get tiresome after awhile...uh...I get tiresome after awhile, so my wife says.
If you need someplace to send all those horrible ones, I can PM you an address :)
Wow, Paddy, looks like you went ballistic with a sharpie.
That one really is gone. I'll be interested to hear what the gurus have to say.
I would assume some are before pics and some are after? Also a bath in what?
The detail in the second one is awesome.
I wish I had a dime for every Swiss cupronickel coin I have bought thinking them to be silver...
You must have a few other V-nics. Try some methods on them before you mess with that coin. Soaking or dipping is NEVER going to cause hairlines.
Yeah, e-bay would be a good place. Even if you get one a couple of years old, the information is still good, and, as I said, the prices are...
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