I think the dime has heat damage. When a clad coin gets hot enough, sometimes a bit of trapped gas or grease between the layers will expand and...
Ah, that brings back entirely un-Superman-related memories.
Not sure I'd even call it an "affliction". Almost more like a superpower in some ways. There are a bunch of things that can cause heterochromia...
And even after the first time or two, I'm guessing the mint luster is long gone.
Sure it is. I'm a guy; I don't have to carry any of the possible products.
I don't see it that way. This is a way to produce a healthy child where "nature" would produce only stillborn or doomed ones. Mitochondrial...
For a moment I was trying to interpret that as a ring setting. Whoa.
The problem is that the reduced silver or gold doesn't plate back onto the coin in its original structure. It's more likely to form a...
Yep, that LEGO catalog has come a loooong way from 1970 or so when I was an enthusiast... :)
Lighting/color-balance adjustments: fine, and often necessary to make the photo "look" accurate. This includes brightness/contrast. Sharpening:...
Huh. I've never heard it used to refer to anything but a "compulsive thief".
Is that your 10" Dob, and if so, is that a front filter? Solar?
LEGO makes rope now? ;)
OMG! You DO know what this signifies, don't you: ANCIENT BARCODES!
Okay, seeing this thread dredged up made me go back and check all the threads Hunting Rare has started. By my count, he's now up to at least six...
Yup, the Mint's designers failed to learn the Buffalo nickel lesson: don't make the date a high point of the design. This was probably minted...
I've assumed the requirement wasn't so much "stack on the rims", but "don't stack on a design high point", so as to prevent stacks from falling...
Even then, zero seems more special than the other numbers, even though it isn't in combinatoric terms. (If anything, it's less special, because...
LOL, and melt value of that dime might well have been $3 or more, especially in January 1980. I wasn't paying much attention to coins or PMs in...
Is "X00" really a typical 3-digit number though? I'm not a SN collector, but it seems to me that 400 is more "special" than 412 or 453 or 395....
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