I'm sticking with "plastic". An acid bath that dissolved away 9/10 of a coin wouldn't leave anything that looked like that.
Some might say that explains gold. ;)
And I'm sure it can remain irrational longer than I can remain solvent. So if I do go insolvent, it won't be from buying ASEs.
No, no, it's just that she was using asparagus again, and it finally killed her. It's a heck of a drug.
Plastic at that weight, with a hole melted through it, most likely. Someone went to all that trouble with a piece of play money that probably cost...
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Or P. T. Barnum, one or the other.
Oh, yes. I was there.
Shall we discuss the moral implications of adding a mintmark back to a coin like this? I'd vote for "C", "CC", or "D". :rolleyes:
Excellent thinking. I'm sure the VAMmers could shed some light...
I hear exactly the opposite complaint from most sellers.
"Commerative" "Shinny"
Yeah, me, too -- but I still haven't found one of those in a CoinStar reject slot. A bank teller did show me one, once, that a convenience store...
I've probably cemented my reputation at this point as "that old white guy who checks the CoinStar for loose change Every. Single. Time he comes to...
Yep -- with a current bullion value of over twenty CENTS. (But not as much as 25 cents.) Anyone care to venture a guess as to the premium over...
I assume a nickel with an Indian man on the obverse is still fair game, but a half with non-President Ben is still junk? ;)
I'm such a different collector from you, with such a different approach, that I'm not sure I'd even say we're in the same hobby. But I'm just as...
Or inherited. If we kicked off tomorrow, I guess our kids would be able to do the same thing -- but I hope we've raised them well enough that they...
I'd say the moral is "buy from a place that has good return policies, and inspect what you get VERY carefully."
Very, very, very cool!
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