If the black gunk's just tar, probably fine. If the black gunk has fine dirt or sand embedded in it... pushing grit around on a coin can damage...
Or a just-listed lot of 15 silver dollars for $820, a bit under spot. Mostly worn, and mostly Peace, and only obverses shown, but there are at...
Heh. That made me go and take a look at new BIN listings, where I spotted this: [ATTACH] Listed at 7:01PDT, sold at 7:04PDT. I saw it at...
For me, it was usually the other way around - find something that was freshly posted BIN at a lower-than-expected price, and snatch it before...
Or lucky. I nabbed a few on eBay over the course of several years. Turned a nice profit on a few of them, but if you factor it out over the time...
Yep, if it's cold and dry enough, water goes directly from ice to vapor without melting.
Well, water that condenses onto a surface is technically distilled, I guess - but it doesn't stay pure for long if there was stuff on the coin's...
And, of course, 1913-P is a better date, even in VG!
I guess some of us really, really like to gamble, and apparently this doesn't run afoul of any laws. It sure doesn't appeal to me, though.
That, or sell them in larger lots to people who think they can then break them up for a profit. But selling the whole box is probably the best...
In the very long term, it seems to go up. ("Very long term" is limited here, since it's been "only" sixty-odd years since we stopped tethering...
Is Priority Flat Rate Small Box still the best bet for stuff like this? I seem to remember you can stuff quite a few pounds of coins into one of...
Barber halves in anything over VF are steep, even for common dates. That 1902-P would be a $200 coin in XF, and if this one can be conserved...
Wow, that is one nice AU Barber half! Might well be worth sending to Skip at ICG for conservation. Even in a dry environment, most paper very...
I see that a similar box just sold on eBay for $325! https://www.ebay.com/itm/147280422268
Yep, and those are excellent photos, easily clear enough to show that... it's the common type, not the valuable one....
Examine the 1942 dimes carefully, especially if any of them have a D mint mark (near the rim just to the right of ONE on the reverse). There's a...
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