Hey, give me two 1964 or earlier dimes, and I'll be happy to buy you a gallon of gas today. :)
Here are the threads in which I detailed my eBay-counterfeit experience: eBay rip of the month? 1920-S Walker... Follow-up: that fake 1920-S...
Ah, now I understand -- thanks for setting me back on track. (It was starting to look like a pretty smelly experiment anyhow...)
Hmm. It should be really simple to test for the presence or absence of tin in a population of sacrificial 1944-1946 cents. Time to dig out the old...
I'll see that story, and raise it. I went to a former favorite bank, which is now the target of far too many half-hunters (and dumpers), and the...
1) You're figuring avoirdupois ounces, but PMs are denominated in troy ounces (31.1 g). 2) Can you hook me up with some of that $40/oz palladium? :)
Ye cats! 3.2kg? That's a mighty nice $82K doorstop...
As a benchmark, at the last coin show I went to, silver was at $39.26/oz, and the strongest buyer there was offering 26.5x face, which works out...
If the OP is getting confused about "x face value" for silver, I'd say you're not helping. :) You seem to be confusing "dollars per once" with...
I've wondered whether small, consumer-grade cleaners are really powerful enough to cause cavitation, or whether they just rely on high-frequency...
I don't know exactly what PCGS does, but I do know in general about generating compact "fingerprints" from a larger dataset (like an image)....
Acid dipped? It looks a lot like a nickel that's been sitting in vinegar for a while.
Yep, the rising tide of silver prices has turned some pretty darn nice pieces into "junk"...
Is this based on a comparison of slabbed pop counts to original mintage figures? I don't know how many were stashed by contemporary collectors,...
I see that "Plated and Clad Bars" will now have a ghetto, er, category of their own. Good.
It appears to show at least XF details, which would make it a five-figure coin, but it's in a stapled paper flip marked "VG-F". Nope, I can't see...
Sure, what you've said makes sense. But if the economy does improve, gold will come back down. I know it may put me in a minority in these...
I like both the 3-cent silver and nickel varieties -- but probably only because they're so uncommon.
I'd think this test would be unreliable. First, are the clad and silver packaging materials of equal weight? Second, I could easily increase...
Man, I am so glad that coin didn't walk through the door of the local Cash4Gold instead...
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