Hey, there's a collecting goal -- a full set of gold Stellas. Not one of each type and year; all of each type and year. You could do it with a...
Wouldn't surprise me. They've got enough of everybody else's money squirreled away. Particularly the crooked "everone elses", who of course have a...
I'm too lazy to look it up, but I wonder if the legislation requires it. If it were the designer doing it, I'd expect more variation in letter...
A shame it won't circulate, eh? I'm still bugged that they put multiple sets of initials on both faces. Hiding them in the water here is nice,...
Well, it wouldn't be the first details coin I ever submitted. :rolleyes:
I'll take that bet! (I saw the photo from the previous sale.)
Hey, I can answer that for mine: I didn't submit it, not even to ANACS, because (a) somebody went after it with a steel brush, so it's an...
It's a fun way to double-and-then-some your money, isn't it? If only it could happen regularly. Congrats!
Edit: to remove a good rant that had exactly zero to do with large-denomination bills. Sorry, I'll be good. :angelic:
Excellent work! Thanks for bringing us along. I tried to master the diagnostics for the 1928-P, but I didn't have very good luck. It was quite a...
So, are you thinking altered date, or entirely counterfeit?
But-but-but drug money! Sure, there were thousands of reasons for $100 and even larger denominations back in the 1920s, but apparently now the...
I'm having a hard time being certain of the 8's shape, given the dark blotchy toning, but the upper loop does look a little too fat relative to...
And since I was wrong about the oxidation -- I'm not sure what the dip would do. Time for more experiments!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, that's what I was forgetting :oops: -- when you heat the copper plating enough, the zinc underneath dissolves into it, forming...
You're right, it's not rocket science. It's hindsight. In hindsight, buying at $10000 or $1000 or $100 or $0.01 and hodling was brilliant. Buying...
A little acetone soak should clear that right up. ;)
So, what do we think? Half a million, given that individual CU64 notes get $3000 or more?
That is a lot of scratches in a little area -- an oddly specific area. But it might have been someone scraping away cruft to see if there was...
I don't think that's exposed zinc. I think it's chemically altered copper. You could test that by putting into water with some lye (drain cleaner)...
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