If acetone doesn't work, go back to the paint dept and look for Methylethylketone (MEK) an give that try. It is another powerful organic solvent...
The 000.5 is the FS number in Volume 1 of the fourth edition of CherryPickers. The numbering system was change with the fourth edition. FS-401...
Sorry CTGS is already taken, Coin & Token Grading Service. Active from 1993 to about 2003.
One last lthing that hasn't been fully explained is the meaning of the G1. The currency it printed as a sheet of 32 notes aranged in four columns...
If you could find the BEP souvenir cards that they printed of them that would be a good source. They were issued at the ANAconventions from 1971...
Nah, who ever get it at the mint would either keep it or spend it as well. Now once it circulates enough to get to worn for use and gets sent...
1910 was the year that George Clunies Ross died and his son John Sydney Clunies Ross took over the islands.
How are you folks able to give values for the 100 Franc coin when you don't even know where it is from?
The billion mark coin is a very popular piece (as are all of the Westphalia notgeld coins) and a rather pricey one. It is fairly scace but not...
I seriously doubt that the sellout of the First Spouse coins had anything to do with the fineness of the gold they were made from.
Yes but if you combine the order with other orders you make from the mint they lump it all under the one shipping & handling fee.
Looks a lot like mint set toning. Yes I know there were no mint sets that year, but sometimes you can also find toning like that in coins that...
Sometimes you can because the printer goofs and lists the zipcode with the address on the early envelopes. The 64's might have zipcodes because I...
Those were a fantasy piece made in the late 60's early 70's and used as either a bangle for bracelets, or in the case of one clothing manufacturer...
Coin was struck off-center and not properly ejected from the press. Then it was struck a second time with part of the coin between the obv die...
It appears that the coin was already struck when it received the second partial brockage strike. You can see the flattened distorted IN of IN...
In the first image from Pearl Harbor, the note is not a Hawaii overprint. I thought they were when I saw it in the theater, but when I checked...
No, just illegal to import them into the US. If your in a country where they are legal you can smoke them. (Other than cigars and a few other...
Unfortunately the British Pogs site seems to be gone. I have been unable to get into it for a couple months now. I tried the Cashed site in...
You see the "sandwich" because it is a clad composition. There are other countries that use clad compositions as well and when they do you can...
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