That seems more plausible. That's one downside of the increasing availability of XRF - people tend to take it as gospel, even in cases where it's...
I appear to have just won a roll of 40 well-circulated Barber quarters for $350 shipped. We'll see whether the seller backs out. (I bought one...
Indeed it is! I hope they hire some good people, and I hope they listen to them. I wonder how the listed salary range stacks up for someone in...
My impression from the last ten or fifteen years is that in general .999 trades at somewhat less of a premium than 90%. (You pay less for it, but...
She's taking classes from the community college, planning to transfer to NC State for mechanical engineering.
Look, I know I've put on some weight, but I'm working on it...
Hmm. I assume the composition on the label is from XRF. I wonder if XRF gives inaccurate readings on bronze because the copper would block the...
But a hyperbolic curve is asymptotic.
I like that better, for the play on "parabolic" with the bonus connotation of "exaggerated".
But in 2009 there were cents struck in bronze as a commemoration of Lincoln's 200th birthday (and the Lincoln cent's 100th).
Yep, the new one looks nice indeed. I don't know if the color is original, but that's always hard to judge from photos anyhow. It certainly looks...
I think I deal with metric nuts and bolts more than imperial at this point. I've certainly got sockets for both systems.
There's a dirty little secret about where new highly intelligent people come from. :rolleyes:
Yeah, odd things happen to the oil market when you suddenly close all the places people would normally drive to.
...aaand I think I may have just spent a little too long looking at that reverse image. Because now all I can see is the eagle looking down at the...
I think the Mint has explicitly stated that this is a one-year-only design. More's the pity. I do wish the eagle were holding an olive branch...
Absolutely. I also note with some glee that there's basically no talk about "AI destroying jobs" in the trades.
Setting aside for a moment the "virginity" side-quest (which is unlikely to be well-received under the rules of this site), I see that your...
Good Lord, what little I do have that passes as "social skills" was almost entirely acquired in college.
Well, I'm certainly going to be hoarding at least some of them. That obverse portrait is one of the finest I've seen on any coin, and certainly...
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