Not a lot of demand for flying to the moon these days. :(
Two of my favorite Queen albums. ;) Thank you for making me feel just a bit younger; that doesn't happen much these days...
Liked, not because I liked the result, but because I'm really happy that you followed up here. Thanks!
Thanks for coming back to reply. I didn't think Littleton was in the business of promoting "key dates" -- their reputation is that they grade...
And if you see someone on eBay selling silver by the troy pound, keep in mind that one troy pound is TWELVE troy ounces. So a troy ounce is more...
Hi, Tim -- it's highly recommended that you don't post email addresses or phone numbers here, because bad actors skim them off forums like this...
That's a Fraktur lower-case k. [IMG] Here's the Fraktur alphabet. The third lowercase s the "long s", though it too looks like an f or a t to...
This. His last 8 posts have been new threads. I looked through the entire first page of results for "show posts", and he never replied to...
This is a pot of molten bismuth metal. It oxidizes on contact with air. When you scrape the crust off the top, the newly-exposed metal starts to...
These colors may look familiar to those who spend a lot of time on eBay, if nothing else. Skimming the surface of molten bismuth:...
The photos make it look cleaned to me, but that might just be because they're bad photos. There is some evidence of luster, and if it were cleaned...
That's very cool. But that Fraktur k at the end sent me off to Wikipedia -- I somehow imagined another k before it, and was trying to interpret it...
That's exactly what a more-than-half-dissolved nickel looks like. Even if it was struck on an underweight planchet, it's impossible to prove it at...
I'm still trying to figure out why I'm seeing post #45 here from today, then post #46 from Sept. 19, then post #47 identical to post #45. If it...
Here's a Coin Week article that discusses the issue. To make a long story short, the Reagan administration instituted numerous budget cuts, and...
WOW. I'm used to paying more for milk here (NC) than where I grew up (MD), but for a couple of months now Kroger has been selling skim for...
As long as you keep it in a vacuum, or under an inert atmosphere. Perhaps in those apocryphal "air-tight slabs". :rolleyes: Oh, and don't handle...
That is insanely cool. But I hope the host coin was a beat-up 1921...
For a clear counterfeit that isn't marked as such, I wouldn't give the seller any breaks at all. Let me qualify that -- if their selling history...
Huh -- I'm surprised you didn't get a freeze weeks ago. I guess my mental model of your location is off...
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