AFAIK there are patinas and there is Bronze Disease. Bronze Disease is light and flaky and if the chloride from one coin with it comes into...
BTW, here are some of the students "Gold Penny" pennies [ATTACH]
Wow, coming up on 13 years for me...
Whoa...COLORS
I think I got these from @stldanceartist in the "for sale" forum.
Absolutely
In the "Silver Penny/Gold Penny" experiment, it used to call for the students to hold the zinc plated cent with forceps in a Bunsen burner flame....
I'm trying to find a "coin doctor" Don't hit me
Yeah, but think what a thrill someone will have for awhile...
Actually if you put ONE coin in a container of water in the microwave it will boil merrily along. Two tend to start sparking...
Actually I think the wife was broiling fish...
My favorite and almost only one is the Spot/Spoot - appeals to my juvenile sense of humor [ATTACH] [ATTACH]
Periodically I am overcome with the urge to put Zincolns in the oven. This is my latest batch, love the red! [IMG]
Photo, or it ain't there!
Within the last few minutes I have bought several FM issues from the Bahamas, etc. for less than melt.
As a collector while in undergraduate school, I was in a coin shop when a lady brought in her late husband's collection of Sterling Medals of...
I just drank some water that had dinosaur pee in it...
Dunno...ask Skip @Insider
BTW, welcome to CT
Welcome to CT
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