Now I'm imagining a firearm vending machine. o_O
How in the world did they squeeze that into a ROLL?
My favorite kind of quiz -- one where I'm confident in the WRONG answer, but get an explanation as to why it's wrong. Misplaced confidence is...
Thinking that first dealer may someday get some blowback from buying sets like this at ~1/3 silver value. Yeah, Canadian sterling (and sterling in...
Well, maybe. But think about how long it takes a coin to clunk-clunk-kachunk through one of those machines and register its value. You might well...
That sort of electrolytic cleaning is a gentler way to remove tarnish than a lot of others, but I sure wouldn't crack a key coin out of a...
Looks to me like slabbed ones are going for less than $33 on eBay (not always, but sometimes).
Are waffled standard-issue coins (as opposed to patterns) really worth THAT much of a premium? I had the impression that they were pretty common now.
Kind of surprised the plating didn't split and expose zinc on THIS one.
What ever happened to banks clamoring for change?
The coin weighs 26.7g. (If you've got a scale, weigh it; there's some variation in the planchets, and coins lose weight as they circulate,...
Flat and shelf-like. No notches.
It happens. Around the same time, when silver was spiking, I bought a bag of quarters at a show for 25.5x face. I picked through them, saved out a...
Not to mention a prospective groom's father. Also, username seems relevant.
They're overnighting info to you. That means they're willing to spend double-digit dollars to land a new mark, erm, "prospective client". That...
Back when silver was considerably higher than it is now :( I bought a number of Canadian sterling $5 and $10 proofs. I got the impression that...
I would guess that the edge got rubbed or beaten enough to wear off that patina. Look at the way the devices sort of stretch toward the rim on...
Yep, the rest of it is ~1.2g of mildly toxic copper ions, washed away somewhere.
Speaking as someone who was drawn into US coinage as a child -- part of the culture in our little corner of the world was the notion of "finding a...
Hey, he started it (by putting an animated GIF icon on my account). He's well aware. :) (I am planning on redoing it once I get my Photoshop...
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