When I was a very small child, my brother had a heavy, rusty metal thing that sat on his dresser. He always told me it was a Civil War shell from...
It's a shame nobody cleaned the eagle droppings off the coin quickly enough. It's badly corroded, but OP calls it "partially plated" because of...
Here's a cool article on platinum impurities. It seems to indicate that platinum is commonly refined to only 200ppm contaminants (.9998). It looks...
OK, now that shifts me back to "fake until proven otherwise". They might be legit, but I'd want to get them examined by someone with some experience.
Don't you mean extremely rare and valuable off-metal wrong planchet errors? :rolleyes:
Given that you want all those types, I'd be tempted to do it as a "post-WWI" type set, rather than strictly one year. I'd hate to give up either...
That's a better constraint. Not sure if it can be satisfied, but it makes it easier to focus. :) Walkers and SLQs started in 1916 (effectively...
Do you mean 1921 and 1922, or do you mean you're trying to decide which year to do? Starting from the top: $20 gold -- available for both years,...
Yeah, I would've been inclined to give that clerk a thumbs-up if the lecture was accurate. (And gently correct him/her if it wasn't.) Concentrated...
Huh, I didn't have you figured as a whippersnapper!
There's only one four-hoofed animal in this thread, and it's not the coin.
I don't much believe in grading from photos, but I guess NGC doesn't either -- they're just putting coins into very wide buckets (MS/PF, 40-58,...
Yep, looks like it's worn and polished. I don't see any sign of luster in its fields (light reflecting differently as it comes from different...
Yep, even if they manufactured cents from a material that cost nothing, they'd still lose money on every one. As do the people spending or...
The stuff we used to buy is called "The Works", and it's 9.5% HCl, with water and some surfactants making the balance. I don't know what...
LOL, you make a good point. Maybe stackers should be pushing this physical-fitness angle...
It got hit on the star and the wingtip, but those are far from the worst things this coin has had to endure. Still, in a junk-silver lot, I'd take...
I'm totally stealing this. And maybe putting the couch out to the curb.
Huh. So why do stackers post here, then?
That... kind of sounds like he was brushing you off. "Try listing it and see what you can get" generally doesn't make people as angry as "these...
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