I wonder if it's platinum plated? I've seen more listings for platinum than for silver-plated (but not as many as for gold-plated).
It's much harder to resist once you land one or two poorly photographed lots that do contain treasures. If I hadn't hit insurmountable...
Cool coins, but for heaven's sake flatten those staples!
Ah, yes, the "Washington Behind Bars" design. And depending on how they did the relief on that date, we could've had dateless Washington quarters!
@paddyman98 the metal figuring on that copper piece isn't silver? Seems like the sort of work that would have been done in sterling...
Yeah, I've been skunked on both lotteries and metal detecting for longer than that. And for the same reason, come to think of it. ("You can't win...
Yeah, but security! If someone wants to steal two grand from you, would you rather they try to drop a half-dollar-sized coin into their pocket, or...
Same design. It's the one that won the competition for the new quarter obverse in 1932, but the win was overruled.
Thirty dollars worth of copper would be almost 10 pounds of the stuff. If you want to "store value" at that density, you must have either a lot...
Southern Comfort -- now, that brings back some college memories.
And check buy-back prices at APMEX and other online bullion dealers first. You can come out ahead on eBay if you get the right BIN buyer (or the...
Nobody really wants to make things that much easier for people hoping to get into the AT game.
And yet, when someone tries to do that, we can count on quick responses saying "please start a new thread for each coin". You can't please everyone.
Yeah, it's important to keep in mind what things were like for laborers at that time. My grandfather was a pretty conservative guy (and also not a...
I'm seeing mostly circulated common dates. There might be a key date or variety in there, but most likely not -- after all, the reason they're...
Personally, I'll take "bent" over "cut".
Nobody ties Liberty to the tracks!
I'm also seeing more pressure vessels on Amazon lately, apparently for impregnating resins into porous materials. Basically a pressure-cooker in...
Yeah, that second one would've been uglier if I'd been on a Windows machine. Seems like you used to be able to report bad search results to...
Wow. I must've checked a dozen web sites, and every single one either referenced or flat-out stole this same description, complete with the...
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