"Just hear those sleigh-bells ringling, ting-ting-tingling" or whatever.
Perhaps this is a stupid question, but is this one coin front and back or are these two separate coins?
I have both a 10,000 yen coin and a 100,000 yen coin. They were issued to commemorate the 50th or 75 or something (?) year of Hirohito's rule....
I would love to see the coin. Porous coins are a real problem with no simple answers, or, in reality, no answers at all. The only thing would be...
Oops...stuttered
Not bad, when you have really awful looking coins, improving the appearance is no sin. They really aren't MS coins, they are worn and only look...
Hey, tone it down, you dips.
Yeah, cheapest one e-bay has is $10
I notice many people started and then lost collections or some such that caused a lapse in their collecting. My early collection was stolen by a...
I will be pickled tink with whatever I get.
As the title says, how old were you when you started collecting? I was born in 1945, so when I became aware of money in the early 50's there were...
And as Tiny Tim said "God bless us one and all"...oops, that was Christmas...never mind. Happy Thanksgiving to all.
You even made Yoda stutter. Great stuff.
Don't you just love the design though?
BTW, just a word on the acetone...GDJMSP sez that it can have a reaction with copper causing odd toning. Don' know for sure, but I mostly trust...
I know that the last Morgan I conserved, I sanded down and primed out the pits before giving it a good shellacking...looks awesome now... : - )
About people "hating" the series, I think it is just that in general more recent commemoratives don't have the popularity of the older ones. The...
I suspect that if the residue is oily, you are probably seeing the plasticizer in the PVC (used to be dioctylphthalate, not sure what anymore)....
Bad Thad can correct me, but one of the possibilities of PVC contamination is that the copper can react with the chloride in the PVC to give...
First of all, peroxide is an oxidizing agent and the process you are wanting to arrest/reverse/minimize is oxidation. Totally wrong approach....
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