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But if you are working with acetone, how do the bags react to that?
Better question, Are the foam inserts truly inert? Or do they have cheap foam inserts that will break down and eventually damage what you put in...
Oh yes, fake "Fat man" and Chinese Junk dollars are VERY common fakes coming out of China. They date before 1949 so they can be legally faked as...
I think it is real with damage.
It is a common dime worth 10 cents, the dime in the op was special to him personally, not because it had monetary value.
Johnmilton has shown the seven major types, there are also several small changes from changes in the hub used on the Lincoln Memorial design but...
I can't find a match to any known 1831 variety. There are two obv dies that have strongly recut BERTY, obv 3 used on N-4 and N-5, and obv 6 used...
I'm sure they do, and probably around a dollar or so apiece.
I like it.
Fake pattern Chinese dollar.
It is real in the sense that it has physical existence, unfortunately it is not a genuine Continental Currency dollar.
Not an error, just environmental damage.
It's a "generic" shell so probably not.
I have a few piled up somewhere, not sure where. They aren't important and I don't collect them or even buy them. For the most part I just...
That explains him. :)
It appears to be in a Littleton package and a typical brilliant proof. Probably not worth more than a dollar. There are no initials because the...
Dieffenbacher shows diagnostics on some of the various counterfeits but doesn't really go into where they were produced. It also only shows a...
Need images.
Pictures? But almost certainly another case of one side having been ground off. Unless by some chance it does happen to turn out to be something...
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