Well... on the one hand, if your nicer coins get cashed in and start circulating, it means they're going to pick up additional wear, which is bad...
I do have one rule that still might trigger activity -- buy if there's a bargain. If I see something at a price where I know I could take it to a...
Hey, it was alive again by the time I got here!
It's a perfectly precise and emotion-free term in computer science. Then again, so were "master" and "slave" (for an entity controlling a process...
I know it'll eventually reach higher, if only due to inflation. But in the short term, I don't know what it'll do first: rise a lot, or fall a...
That's quite a profit on a one-cent investment! :)
Yep, those are the photos I remember. I do wonder how the difference between those particular Peace and Morgan surfaces compares to the variation...
And it would cost you a lot more than 0.7 cents per coin to melt them and separate the metals, which you'd need to do in order to realize that...
Well, I did post a link to the thread from that one other guy. ;)
I thought it was pretty well-established that TPG holders are NOT air-tight? I've seen clear examples of coins that were gassed in their holders...
Here ya go: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/what-you-need-to-know-about-the-science-of-toning.84670/ Same silver content. Sources? Not sure,...
I remember @GDJMSP posting a pair of photomicrographs years ago comparing the surfaces of an MS Morgan and an MS Peace dollar. The textures were...
Many people believe there are. There are lots of cases of artificial toning that can be distinguished from natural toning, even by people as...
Definitely longer than I can hold my breath, though.
Okay, first time I've read that sentence. :angelic:
Google Translate from photos is a modern-day miracle, but apparently it's not up to handwritten Chinese [?] yet, at least on my phone. I got...
I'm afraid you'll have to... read the rest of the thread. ;)
I lived through the Cold War. At this point, I'm pretty sure we can bungle our way through anything.
I think I'll propose this feature to the XenForo folks: when a user tries to post to a thread, add a delay that's proportional to the time since...
Coming back after an eight-year absence to throw shade on a post from seven years ago? It's going to take you a good while to catch up on seven...
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