Wonder how often this happens compared to burglaries, home invasions, home theft by trusted individuals...
They are commodities. They're special because they keep better than pork bellies, and they take up less space than gasoline. If silver and gold...
I guess metallurgy's enough of a mystery to me that I'm willing to take that part for granted. They may preferentially form at the metal's...
That's an odd statement. After all, whatever policies you hate most, imposed by whatever administrators or legislators or judges you hate most,...
A few years ago, I was browsing in a used bookstore, and I found a bound collection of very old Iron Man comics. In every issue, he saved the day...
I suspect that at this point nearly all silver has been removed from circulation at least once. We still find silver, though, because people still...
It's a better date, but not that much better. I don't think you'd recoup your money from submitting it.
Certainly more than any silver nickel I've ever found in circulation. Looks to me like a $30 coin on eBay. (I'm no good at grading Buffs, but it...
1-3% of the proof population, amounting to 40,000 - 120,000 coins. I have only one, and I honestly don't remember whether I cherry-picked it from...
More on Peace dollars? I had to dig around a little to see that it's a known problem on some Peace dates. For ASEs, the clamor over it has been...
I'm no expert, but I wonder whether an altered 1895 might look the same. There's definitely damage to the date, but I don't know whether the...
Yeah, I would've taken my chances with the OsO4. At least there wouldn't have been anyone deliberately spraying it at me.
If it were impurities in the alloy, wouldn't you expect them to stretch out during rolling, so you'd see milk streaks rather than spots? Then...
Somebody said they put a shot glass on a plate, then put a bowl upside-down over the glass, forming a little vapor chamber. That seemed like a...
Back when I started, this wasn't the case. In RAW images, Canon cameras were definitely recording valid pixel levels at least a half-stop or more...
I think you'd die first, which of course also causes irreversible blindness. It does attack the cornea from vapor exposure. In case Lovecraft...
You might get more help if you specify the coin type, or better yet provide photos.
Depends on all sorts of things. Sometimes, oblique lighting (exaggerating relief on all the coin's features) will help. Sometimes magnification...
I'm picturing a big old view camera, on a tripod taller than me, looming over a tiny coin...
When I was learning to shoot DSLR (with a Digital Rebel, no X-anything, the original 300D), I saw lots of advice to overexpose slightly when...
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