It's true that silver has lower resistance, but you won't have any luck trying to measure it with a regular meter. All you'll really measure is...
Welcome to CoinTalk! See the "S" on the coin's reverse, just above TEN and under the eagle's claw? That's the mint mark, indicating the coin was...
Imagine coin collectors getting involved in lengthy arguments about trivial details. Thanks for the reality check. I should go see if there's any...
It seems farfetched to me that someone picking up a hot flan with pincer tongs would ever get anywhere close to the center. It also seems...
I like seeing the German renderings of oh-so-familiar English ("white-headed sea-eagle"?). I'd consider looking for one myself, except that I'm...
I'd write a correction for this, but I just got my dessert, and I don't want the ice cream to be liquidated.
Could you actually make out those features from those auction photos?
Yep. They did some remarkably stupid stuff, but it could have been worse. At least now they're out of our hair until August (reconvening so the...
Now you've gone and done it. ;) (Kurt will be by shortly to remind us that "Gresham's Law" is a silly special case of a general and trivially...
Cry me a river. Ours declared a 5:30-7:30 dinner break, then went back into session. I wish I could find a link to the direct quote, but if I...
Just had to sit on that one until the editing window had closed, didn't you? ;)
Nope. Just nope. As long as people have a choice of what to spend and what to keep, they'll keep the good stuff and spend the bad stuff. Half...
Vice versa, I would think.
If you had a $20 bill and a $20 silver coin, which would you spend? We tried having silver and base-metal coinage circulating together in the...
Ratified and presented to the Governor today! For a bill like this, I expect that he'll not be eager to sign it, so he may let it become law...
Remember all the talk during the last financial crisis about minting a $1 trillion platinum coin? They can put whatever face value they please on...
The coins cost less to make than they did before, so now they're having losses?
It's part of my experience of life way out on one end of a bell curve: you can see things that a hundred other people will overlook... but...
Or to ensure that it isn't. 911 caller: "Send help! I accidentally shot my husband, and I think he's dead!" 911 operator: "Okay, I need you to...
Do you get notified when an offer is autorejected? I don't auto-reject anything at my current level of activity -- I'm trying to learn about the...
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