Work's been going on for years to replace silver in solar cells with cheaper alternatives. The higher silver goes, the faster those alternatives...
Not sure I agree, just because both metals are (effectively) infinitely divisible. Gold's still only about $135/gram, and one-gram "bars" (flecks)...
I was inclined to take Meow's word for it on the third digit, but it's getting harder and harder for me not to see it as a 0 in these images....
Wow, my family always considered it a disgrace to run out of any food item, but I don't remember more than one turkey at any family get-together,...
It's very strange to me to think of a bank buying and selling coinage with a spread. Here in the US, banks don't buy or sell precious metals....
Absolutely. It was a hideous mistake to ever even consider copper-plated zinc as a coinage material.
Looks like MoneyMetals is offering to buy dimes and quarters at 10% back of melt (36.85x), and selling around 1.5% back of melt (40.21x). I can...
Well, it's sure not a very clear map of the Moon - not sure what they were shooting for with all those little bumps - but I see Tycho and...
Yep, I should've bought up those culls at $32 each at the show last weekend. Edit to add: this is the first time "melt value" for silver has ever...
I'm specifically suspecting laundry machines - those sliding quarter carriages seem like they'd be harder on coins than standard vending machines....
Apparently the really did grade each coin individually. I've seen only 68 and 69 for the gold strikes in the listings I checked, but a lot of 65s...
I loved that design from the first time I saw it, and I ended up accumulating several of them.
I thought I was too obnoxious to overlook from the beginning. :rolleyes: Looks like I missed observing my 15th anniversary here. Oops!
I think the highest Hennings come is XF, "extremely fake"...?
I think I've gotten the hang of it in the twelve years since that post. ;) Yep, still have it! In fact, I still have all three.
One that I listed on eBay years ago - I think I paid something like $60 for this, and I still think I got a good deal, but I doubt I'll ever find...
Three views of the same coin: [IMG] [IMG] [IMG]
My first was actually three gold coins, part of a large eBay lot. I thought I was making out like a bandit, but eventually learned enough to...
Wow. I haven't yet found a store that ever rounds in their own favor; it's always to the favor of the customer. In fact, I could probably turn...
Aw, man, and this is the first year in decades (except the first year of COVID) that I won't be up that way to see family. :(
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