Heh. There were a couple of war nickels in the bag, too -- and, yeah, they were nasty as well. I sort of have the impression, though, that the...
Cool. What did YOU use to get the coin into/out of the acetone? Tongs, gloves, or did you just decant it?
Better yet, I just got a bag of nasty wheaties -- black gunk on my fingers after sorting through them. No, I'm not going to send them off to that...
I'm pretty sure that house wiring has relied on punch contacts and wire nuts for a lot longer than that, at least according to my 1970s-vintage...
That's one of the things I love most about eBay: it's a place where you can buy $5.50 worth of change for $5.50 -- plus $4 shipping and handling....
So? The legal tender value isn't added to the bullion value! You can spend it, in which case you get face value, or you can sell it as silver, in...
Both thermal and electrical, actually. But in both cases it's only a bit better than copper, and given the staggering difference in price, I think...
I would have been dumbfounded if the "industrial use" had NOT decreased, what with a crushing recession reducing nearly every sort of...
No, it meant you could trade it in for one silver dollar, containing somewhat less than an ounce of actual silver.
Now, don't be snippy...
Thanks for the detailed explanation, coinman. I've been mostly buying lots at or near melt, and picking out any treasures I come across, but it's...
How do you figure?
Coinman0456, are you speaking as a dealer or as a collector?
Numismedia lists FMV of $81 in VG8. I don't know how to translate those prices into retail or collector-to-collector expectations. I generally...
Based on Photograde, looks VG-10 to me, but I'm not an accomplished grader. What's your question?
I feel confident that one day, probably in the next few decades, we'll see an enormous melt of nickels. It's hard to imagine something like the...
$200 CWR of halves, or so I thought, this afternoon -- turns out 5 of the rolls were short, so not only was I skunked on silver/proofs/NIFC, I'm...
Or they could, you know, say something about an 8% eBay Bucks promotion on their web site. Maybe in the same spots where they incessantly flog the...
Stay tuned, EyeEatWheaties. There are a couple more "collection" items that I've bid on and won, and I'll be telling those stories in the next few...
I really can't see anything there other than off-kilter color balance on the entire photos -- compare the background on the first and third with...
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