Just a heads up in case you didn’t know. There are people out there cooking coins in chemicals to impart dramatic toning. While some of these have...
Most interesting unintentional experiment was in a thread here on CT last summer. A fellow in Dallas purchased a proof set then forgot about it in...
I wouldn’t be too worried about the map. I know what you are talking about. Thing is, this deal has a lot of old guys like me excited and there...
Just watch your change. I am dumping about twenty old coins into circulation myself tomorrow. My dealer has been dumping all month.
Not sealed. It is a Capital style holder. Four screws and they are free.
I should have taken some but didn’t. Being an old fashioned sort, I leave my phone in my truck when I visit somebody.
What Chris said. Cool keeper though.
I tried to take a couple of photos through a lighted magnifier. My gut tells me the white spots are remnants of some attempt at dipping that...
I think @johnmilton nailed it when he noted that they had been dipped somewhere over the years. Looking closely at them they appear to be droplets...
Yes, they really are. Steve didn’t lose on the deal. He is a savvy enough businessman to have done his diligence up front. Broke the heart of the...
He was rather nonchalant about it. He didn’t pay the price of the genuine article as he had inspected them when he did the deal. Just was showing...
My favorite fellow out in Gilbert.
Exactly my response. I am a fifty year collector. Forty of those were as a poor man and the Redbook was my Bible.
Went to see my dealer yesterday. He had purchased a complete Morgan collection earlier in the week and showed me two silver dollars that stunned...
When I was a youngster I hung out at a little dealers shack close to my house. Seems everything I heard him say became “coin law” in my mind. I...
Is it the lack of toning that tells you the silver coins have been dipped at some point?
That is a good suggestion. Thanks
You can’t hear that song and not smile.
That was my Paul Simon joke...
I just call her Betty.....
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