It almost assuredly is damage after leaving the mint. The "L" in Liberty is in a precarious place, and is often shoved out of position by such as...
Boss, If the xylene didn't dissolve it, it must be an acrylic lacquer ( post 1955 ) or a polyurethane material which produces a cross linked...
If you decide to buy a 10X loupe/magnifier, I think this one is the best deal around as far as quality and pricing. If you don't mind the Russian...
I also use a Canon, A590IS, which has stabilization feature ( very nice if shooting through an eyepiece of a scope or holding freehand), and all...
VF30 with environmental damage. Jim
There seems to be a lot more of this happening by NCG and also the other main TPG companies. Perhaps tightening is intentional in order to avoid...
I agree wilth RLM, I think the 2nd strike may be bogus, just looks wrong for the amount of metal available. Jim
Since moisture and environmental gases pose the most problems, I use what I consider are good barriers against those. In the safe and bank box,...
Here is the patent that underlies the product. http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6752934/description.html A quick reading seems to indicate it...
Hi BiggieJ, Welcome to the forum! Sorry to hear of your misfortune, but glad things are working out. New people today don't know what the...
And Welcome to the forum! Jim
Watch this video on making gold and silver lincolns in the lab. This experiment is in many middle and high school lab books so there are many of...
I vote with the MMD group. I believe it is not a DDO. I think I have one similar that I was pondering a while before deciding the same thing, Too...
Diamond dust ( grit ) is in a oil based matrix such as Vaseline. This is because diamond sticks to the oil and thus allows a surface of it to...
If you are going to experiment, use something that will not itself leave scratch lines. I would suggest diamond dust paste in 5,000 grit upward...
That seems a repairable coin if someone wanted to have a pro do it. There isn't much damage in the devices and although it might not fool a TPG,...
Momma raise your child to be a coin doctor.... Do you realize how much that toning costs per oz?? According to White's "coin Chemistry" book,...
I think that Michael Jackson's life started with the 2 pathetic parents he had, and ended with him trying to reclaim his youth,working out with...
What procedure did you use to get the weight in water? jim
Keith, Something I have done since my first show decades ago is to divide my spending money into 2 pockets and an envelope. The first pocket...
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