Apparently this guy's been at it for a while, but this is the first time I've come across one of his auctions. Mercury Dimes Various Dates Lot...
I'll let @Beefer518 have all the art-deco eagles, as long as I can hang onto a few gold Indian $2.5/5/10 coins. I really dislike the eagle designs...
I like the first one (and the coin is sort of identified right there on the face ;)). I like eagles like the St. Gaudens $20 or the Walking...
I think most paper manufacturing still uses sulfur, but "the chemicals in" that paper have changed a lot. Chlorine bleaching produced toxic and...
Fill me in here -- who did make him? :rolleyes:
It's true; this "board" isn't for everyone. Sorry it didn't work out for you.
That Barber quarter looks better than average. Wonder if it's got a mintmark?
You may have a foolproof way to tone a coin nicely in an afternoon, but I'm afraid a fellow could still go to see his Maker in that time period....
But you just said "most modern silver has been dipped at some point". If I show you a coin that's powdery, you'll just say "it was dipped", and...
Well, okay -- but I've got ASEs of unknown provenance, some dating back to the 1990s, that weren't stored especially carefully as far as I know,...
If colorful toning forms a "protective layer", why does it progress? When bare aluminum is exposed to air, it forms a thin layer of oxide, and...
Kroger's raised milk from $1.49 to $2.09/gal over the past two weeks. It's a shame, but not as much of a shame as dry cereal. I didn't really...
Kinda like the those shiftless college kids who never had a real job before founding Facebook or Google? On the Internet, nobody knows whether...
As I recall, they had mostly faded by then. It was already unusual to get one. If someone had sent me a message from the future, though, I'll bet...
At this point, if I can't tell whether it's a fake or a defective planchet, I'll pass. So I guess we can also blame the fakers if the market for...
I often see "sinking" devices on lower-quality counterfeits, where low points of the devices appear to submerge under the field and disappear. On...
Passivation certainly happens with some metals (and oxidants); that's why we can boil water in aluminum pots without the water attacking them, and...
I'm not comfortable arguing that the definition of "cleaning" excludes "removing foreign contaminants from a coin's surface". Yes, I understand...
If I get an old set of coins in a Harco Coinmaster album, reeking of shower-curtain plasticizer, you'd better believe I'm going to soak them all...
Like "cleaned", there can be a difference between "dipped" and "improperly dipped". Can copper be dipped in any way that isn't "improper"? I...
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