Sounds like a plan to me ;)
Think about it - what makes a coin hard to grade ? Various people will give various answers, but usually what drives their answer, the cause of...
Red is the natural color of copper before it has a chance to oxidize. If you've ever worked with copper it's easy to see what that color is by...
Sandblasting did exist in the 1800's, can't give you an exact date but it existed. But I believe acid is what was used in the early years.
The Amsterdam siege was in 1578, this is the coin - http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=3616&pos=0 And yes, it...
A couple of questions for you clad. You've claimed before that some of the mint packaging had PVC layers. But that is contrary to everything I...
Now Guy not all cheap whiskey is bad. I've always been kinda partial to Jim Beam :D It's smoother than Jack Daniels and half the cost ;) You can...
Well kinda, yes. Salt water is deadly to coins, except gold and platinum. edit - I readily admit it's a heck of a bargain. But a re-chargeable...
KIMAR - it's fairly simple really. MS65 is a fairly high grade, while PF65 is a low grade. MS67 is a high grade, while PF67 is a mid to average...
You did, but I moved it here because it was either that or delete it because you broke the 7 day rule by posting it where you did. And also,...
I don't disagree. But rather obviously the piece is not a die because it has two sides - dies only have one. I was only trying to answer the...
The purchasing power of the money does not change. Only the price of the product changes depending on where you are. The same thing happens...
It can be many things, 1 thing, or nothing. But as a general rule even a novice could distinguish a replica from a genuine coin (assuming they do...
Not true Sam. A finished coin is always thinner in the fields than the unstruck planchet was. The metal the fills the devices and the rim has to...
Correct. The answer is sometimes they know the previous grade, and sometimes they do not.
That is because the laser produces pebbles of a much larger size than previous methods did.
That is an excellent resource Bart :thumb: I have university study papers for the medieval period, but that's the first I've seen for ancients....
The reason you never heard of it back then is because it didn't happen then. Until the '90s, can't swear to it but I think it was '92 or '93, the...
Jim - being a chemist you'd know better than I. But wouldn't you worry about using salt as a desiccant for coins in an enclosed container like a...
Not really a good idea, by the time you get them (even as a pharmacist) their effectiveness is already used up.
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