I've bought books for years and I am still buying them. I've spent over $400 on books so far this year and there are still more of them I want to...
Yes it should work. The key is getting it hot enough and keeping it there for a long enough time. A toaster oven should be able to do that.
NO, it might cause a decline in casual collecting, but it may result in a upsurge in actual numismatics, the serious study of the coins themselves...
They probably can if they are using their Logo without permission.
I will be there Friday and Saturday. I attend every year except when it conflicts with EAC and EAC is close by to where I live.
The "grease" was not just grease. There was a lot of other things like dirt, dust and METAL FILINGS trapped in the grease as well. When it was...
I think it is glue on the surface of the coin and your line is the boundary edge of the glue.
True, but even when the second one shows up, I still have the discovery specimen.
No from looking at the bids (including the automatic bids) the winning bidders max was $15 and was placed a fraction of a second ahead of...
US Business strike 1885 three cent piece mintage 1,000. Non-US I have a Warwickshire token that had a mintage of 48. Going by known piece as...
Date font is wrong. In my case it was the 1 and especially the 3 that caught my eye.
I don't know if they did or not, but a simple weighing should tell you if it is silver or not. Personally I thought from the image in the auction...
The depressed area on the ob seems to have a rougher mo porous surface than the higher area. I would suspect it had something corrosive on it for...
There was no coating applied at the mint to the proofs as far as I know.
I'm not sure it's a clash. And if it is I don't believe it is one of the three mentioned.
That's because it appears to be an HT34. HT31 thru A33 Have Executive Experiment around the turtle. HT34 and the coin from the auction have...
Sure, you want to take all of them off his hands for more than melt price? He'd happily sell them to you instead of the smelter. The thing is he...
There has never been any explanation for the larger star on those years. I have seen very high grade plated NC nickels and I have seen mid grade...
I was considering the possibility of a lettered edge thin planchet. In other words 76a lettering on a 76b planchet. There are a few of those...
Yes but you are the only one who does and you can't prove it to anyone else so it just becomes a regular generic planchet.
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