These colors may look familiar to those who spend a lot of time on eBay, if nothing else. Skimming the surface of molten bismuth:...
The photos make it look cleaned to me, but that might just be because they're bad photos. There is some evidence of luster, and if it were cleaned...
That's very cool. But that Fraktur k at the end sent me off to Wikipedia -- I somehow imagined another k before it, and was trying to interpret it...
That's exactly what a more-than-half-dissolved nickel looks like. Even if it was struck on an underweight planchet, it's impossible to prove it at...
I'm still trying to figure out why I'm seeing post #45 here from today, then post #46 from Sept. 19, then post #47 identical to post #45. If it...
Here's a Coin Week article that discusses the issue. To make a long story short, the Reagan administration instituted numerous budget cuts, and...
WOW. I'm used to paying more for milk here (NC) than where I grew up (MD), but for a couple of months now Kroger has been selling skim for...
As long as you keep it in a vacuum, or under an inert atmosphere. Perhaps in those apocryphal "air-tight slabs". :rolleyes: Oh, and don't handle...
That is insanely cool. But I hope the host coin was a beat-up 1921...
For a clear counterfeit that isn't marked as such, I wouldn't give the seller any breaks at all. Let me qualify that -- if their selling history...
Huh -- I'm surprised you didn't get a freeze weeks ago. I guess my mental model of your location is off...
And we're supposed to get our first frost (and freeze) of the season tonight. Gotta remember to bring in the plants...
Not really, unfortunately. When the coin tones, sulfur grabs onto those surface silver atoms, disrupting some of their bonds with their...
This simply isn't so. Or, at least, it isn't simply so. Some metals form a coating that protects against further attack. This is called...
Yup. Back in the vicinity of 2008 I put some money into a mortgage company that was paying a 20% dividend. I collected in one quarter, then they...
Why would "the oil barons" care to "replace natural medicines with pharmaceutical drugs", used by the gram or milligram, when they had by then...
I'm not 100% sure that's true. I've seen a couple of older silver coins (Seated, Barber) that appear to have powdery black toning. I haven't tried...
The sale was in June 2015, I think. For future reference, you can start a new thread by clicking on the US Coins Forum link at the top of the...
Sure. All you have to do is get to them. :rolleyes: And by the same token, we know where to get more hydrocarbons than Man could ever burn -- on...
It's a long story, especially for the trade dollar (1878-P). The Charlotte dollar was carved into a love token on the obverse), but that left the...
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