I recently talked to an executive of one of the big auction houses. He said that the extra administrative costs of collecting and remitting sales...
Probably no president could have prevented the civil war. There was no way the slave states would tolerate a Republican president, especially not...
I think you pretty much nailed it on the high price. Might add there are serious coin collectors who collect other series and have no real...
JB Weld is epoxy. Hardened epoxies can be softened, dissolved and removed by a variety of halogenated solvents. A popular product for this is...
As long as high resolution photographs exist with the original provenance mentioned, the provenance won't be really lost. It will just take some...
Scotland is a lovely country. Best feature is the people ... friendly, helpful, knowledgeable. We stayed in Glasgow, Dunkeld/Birnham, Tarbet,...
Actually, it's primer that's purple. And, primer is a purple dye dissolved in ... guess what? ... good ole acetone. The purple is there so...
I mentioned THF (tetrahydrofuran) in a post Dec of 2016. Best solvent for PVC. Anyone who has glued PVC pipe will instantly recognize the smell....
I use FastStone for simpler processing and Photoshop for more complex manipulation. FastStone is free. I have an older version of Photoshop, so...
I had a coin (nice AR commem) that was treated with Dissolve (freon 113, no longer available), which should remove PVC residue. It was submitted...
Ah ... fare thee well then. If you should go to the museum, there is a whiskey store near it called Whiski, which also has an adjacent...
Enjoy your trip. We spent most of our time there in small towns in the highlands and had a great time. Another museum to consider is the...
I'd go with question #2. If she says it was gold, just say,"Oh right, slip of the tongue. I meant gold coin." She'll understand her ancient...
I belong to clan Bruce. I have a Bruce tartan cap (see below), but no kilt and unfortunately no Scottish coins. Cal [ATTACH]
On a recent trip to Scotland, my family and I were able to visit the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. It's a great museum with something...
I suppose there could be a coin with a label of genuine, (choose the problem), P details. I haven't seen one, but haven't really looked. Of...
Yeah. I first learned about lowball registry competition when I took a grading class from PCGS at Long Beach. I was amazed. But there are over...
Cost me $56. Because of lowballers, the cost versus grade price curve for certified coins goes up at the very low end. I don't really collect...
Coin is supposed to be 10.9 g. If 3.1 g had been removed from the surface, it would look a lot worse than it does unless tooled after acid. So,...
Definitely check the density. About this time, the mint was starting to play with different copper alloys for patterns. This isn't a pattern;...
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