Okay, I'm baffled. How on Earth is this coin graded any higher than VF30? Better yet, how did it go for more than 25% over FMV for the claimed...
It's better than that. When those trees got turned into paper and made into books, their carbon was sequestered. If those trees had been left to...
Sterling sells for a discount, even compared to coin silver, even though it's .925 instead of .900. As it's been explained to me, sterling is...
Significantly smaller. The older ones contained only a bit less than 1/20 oz of gold, so they were approximately half the weight. You can Google...
I'd turn you down, too. $400 - $289 = $11? :devil:
Beats me. It might help if you could provide a clue about what SCD stands for. :)
And we should probably remind everyone that acetone will dissolve many plastics, possibly including those commonly used in coin holders. I know it...
Why would anyone use easy-to-lose, easy-to-steal cash for large transactions, rather than secure electronic transfers? Perhaps it's that cash...
ALWAYS read the label. Having said that, acetone is actually one of the least toxic organic solvents you're likely to come across -- comparable to...
Somebody a while back posted a Kennedy that was really heavily worn -- something I'd never seen before. I've seen ones chewed up by coin machines...
Manganese? Or did you mean manganese bronze? At my last gig, we had to have non-ferrous keys for the MRI lab -- a key getting sucked into the...
Don't forget KEY DATE!!!
I started to write that, too. But then I thought about the SLQs, and the first Walkers, and the Saint Gaudens, and I decided that was too many...
More generally: Through 1964, the Jefferson nickel, Roosevelt dime, Washington quarter and Kennedy half had their mint mark on the reverse....
It's not worth much; you should just send it to me. :) If it's a genuine 1840-O, and truly in excellent condition, it's worth quite a lot....
I'll tell you what signals the end of the bull market: YOU putting all YOUR money into it. Yours truly, Murphy
I... see. So the ancients that ratio411 was discussing must, too, have been thinking of atomic weight -- commendable of them, since most of their...
No, you said "People don't want to invest in a company that has 70 billion in cash which is earning 1.5% a year while it sits" -- after a week in...
I agree that .999 and higher purity isn't a practical consideration for monetary use, but there's at least one application where it's quite...
What, indeed? By density (g/cc): Element Density Atomic Weight Osmium 22.61 190.2 Iridium 22.56 192.2 Platinum 21.46 195.1 Rhenium...
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