Someone honest should buy these and keep them out of trade... http://www.ebay.com/itm/292081452239?ul_noapp=true
Which reminds me of a joke that could get me a warning...
If you have a magnet handy, see if they are magnetic. Many fakes are.
Did you dip the end in chocolate to lick it off?
OK, Verdicare is said to leave a thin protective layer on the surface. The sniffer is a ATR FTIR (Attenuated Total Reflectance - Fourier...
If you're stuck with lemons, make lemonade.
OK, here's a quick (and not so good) experiment. Six cents - three post 1982 and three pre 1982: [ATTACH] Soak these in a vinegar/salt solution....
My understanding is that it won't
Usually referred to as a "Magician's Coin".
Exactly, just being picky. Acetone is more available and is often the go-to solvent for cleaning organic residues. A few years back, a student...
I'm in...My Precious...
There is a posting in one of the other forums by @Insider where he posted a Morgan silver dollar that had been "filled" in using some foreign...
Consider it a "quibble", but if anything, xylene is a cooler (less polar) chemical, but all that means is that it will easily dissolve non-polar...
But not to anyone else.
Or when REALLY stoned.
I could see them before I posted.
Nice
See if they show up in my reply...
Do +Quote and then start to post a reply, the pics will show up.
One of the reasons we should never dip coins that are less than AU (or possibly high XF).
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