I remember seeing a movie in which some service guys were making different kinds of booze from grain alcohol and one of them advised "Put in some...
...shameless... "I'll leave that to the chemists above my pay grade." What chemists get paid THAT good??? :)
But in Lake Woebegone ALL the children are above average.
Nah, it's here forever, there's just more company in the Coinstar Finds thread
Grading us usually meaningful for coins costing at least $150. These are nice, but not that nice.
A flea and a fly in a flue were imprisoned so what could they do..."Let us flee said the fly, "Let us fly" said the flea, so they flew through a...
I was in graduate school with a Chinese student who went undergraduate in Texas. He spoke English with a Chinese accent but a Texas drawl.....
I like the 1943 cents. Soak them in acetone or xylene to remove the paint.
Put some new shiny cents in your oven the next time you cook something.
Hub doubling is the collectable kind of doubling. The "worthless" forms of doubling include MD (machine doubling) and wear doubling from an old die.
necro necro thread alert. @BKay some Proof dimes were apparently made without an S mintmark, these are worth bucks. Read somewhere (Google)...
...close, but they don't use a mold for US coins, they are struck from planchets that are punched out of stock. The bins holding the planchets...
Get your son to bring home a test tube of xylene.
No, tricksies master is a different book...golum golum. :)
Good question, wish I had a good answer. Keeping the silver under distilled water would allow an oxide coat to form...???
I think aluminum is much cheaper than silver, and the aluminization process is cheaper, more durable and easier than silvering.
Whether from wear or a grease-filled die, it is only face value. Grease-filled dies are interesting sometime, but have no numismatic value....
I have faith in @physics-fan3.14 but just wanted affirmation.
Isle of Man...not silver but my daughter bought it for me. [IMG]
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