You've been here how long, and you're recommending rubbing a coin with an abrasive cloth?
Nice! I got one 1999 Pennsylvania (non-silver) proof quarter in circulation years back -- it showed very little wear, but no trace at all of frost...
I'm thinking something was corroded onto it. Or into it. With enough time underground, all sorts of things can happen.
o_O Okay, first of all, "hydrocarbons on Titan proves Earth's oil isn't fossil fuel" is absolutely silly. It's like saying "there's CO2 in Venus'...
There's a lot more metal than that right under your feet. You can't get to that metal, either. We'll probably never be able to harvest metal from...
Good luck with that. It only takes one person to troll. It takes everybody controlling themselves to make it stop.
Will you feel the same way when it's steadily dropping in value? Bitcoin's supply is limited, but the number of potentially competing...
Alas, no. Putting a coin into one of those encasements damages its edge; getting it out damages the edge further, and can easily damage one or...
That seems like a shame. Are they ill, or just in the wrong spot at the wrong time?
Could you post a full-coin shot of the second one (with feeder finger marks)?
Samsung phones have an annoying "Beauty Mode" for selfies. It smooths skin and probably does other stuff as well. I wonder how hard it would be to...
I guess the fundamental disconnect is that I handle exclusively lower-value and more-common coins, unless I find a rarity by sheer luck, and I...
Okay, this brought me up short. "Bad money drives good money out of circulation" -- and what could be worse money than a theoretical construct...
I guess the aluminum clamped to the cent offered galvanic protection while it was in the ground. I've seen these "good luck tokens" plenty of...
Meh. This came in a few days ago; it's common junk, sure enough, but $90 worth of silver for $75. If everyone thought searching was a waste of...
If you don't think regular cash payments have "value", I'm afraid it isn't our heads over which points are flying.
Ah, the old "if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" argument. I'm sorry, but I don't find it entirely reassuring.
So, will I need to bring a notary to the checkout line with me, or will the store provide one? And how will the "witnesses" be trained to...
<crack> "Guys, you won't believe my luck! I just found this shiny 1916-D dime in a self-checkout! What are the odds?" Or, at the other end of...
That's a shame. I guess they'll be hitting me up to register for Managed Payments, then. I'd love to know the details of the arrangement. How did...
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