I think the OP's scheme would work.......for widgets. Common always available in quantity average grade material. For anything else no. And...
They are sonicly welded, not just snap together. They aren't sealed as well as a slab but usually they will still show damage if forced open.
The 1982's used pure zinc for the cores but later ones have a trace of copper included in the cores, it helps the plating adhere better and...
All of the coins you have posted are WAM
I erred. The obv's of S-192/193 and 194/195 are similar and I was hasty. The position of the hair waves below the E and R are further left than...
That is one of the 1800/179 varieties, not one of the 1800/1798 varieties. There are 11 different overdate varieties in 1800, 4 1800/1798 and 7...
Preservation really isn't a good excuse for sending to a TPG. Good quality generic shells or airtites are much cheaper and do as well as the TPG...
There are 17 varieties that year and the date is the same size on all of them I believe. Eleven of the varieties are petite heads and 6 of them...
Yes, but not that much of a premium. The GSA flatpacks are getting scarce and are worth some premium. I would think $10 to $15 dollars over what...
None of the TPG's are very good about replying to emails. You'll get much better results with a phone call.
Yes hot sauce has acid in it.....acetic acid otherwise known as vinegar. And I'm pretty sure that vinegar has more vinegar in it than hot sauce does.
Weak edge lettering is not rare. And I need abetter description on the partial edge lettering piece. What is missing? Is the rest of the edge...
Lots of dealers that get ripped off while eating say they thought they were OK because they parked where they could see the car while eating. But...
Yet after over 60 years of reports of such robbery reports, dealers STILL leave their vehicles unattended while they go into restaurants to eat.
And if you resubmitted the 70's, you would probably find 50% of them would come back 69.
Unless you luck into a used copy the only source for the Noyes books is numismatic literature dealer Charles Davis...
Several bags of 1859-O and 60-O dollars were distributed at face value during the great rush on the Treasury in the early 1960's. In the GSA...
I said books, plural.
Books.
Dust and foreign matter getting caught on coins causing spots is nothing new. So is tiny tears in the mylar on 2X2's that cause localized tarnishing.
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