I only live a few hours from there, why ? What do you need ?
Forget about the wire brush. Best guess is they use a chemical dip.
Same place it's been for the last 4 years ;) But don't feel bad, hardly anybody ever looks there. I suppose it's the name I gave it - Numismatic...
Well, when you are doing your research make sure to check out the refining method known as cupellation. It is one of the oldest. And oddly enough...
Hardly - it would in fact be much easier to mint pure gold. There were two reasons and only two reasons that the purity of the metal was ever...
Yes they do. I don't have any pictures to show you of very, very old ones. About 400 years old would be the oldest I had in my collection but they...
You are making an assumption. It's not that they can't do it, it's that they choose not to do it. Then you need to so some research because...
Coin has light wear in the high points thus should be 58. But the TPG no doubt ignored that.
Boy ! - You had me all kinds of confused here. I thought you were showing 3 different coins in this 1 thread :o Didn't realize what was goin on...
Over-priced by $75-$100 IMO.
I have no idea, that was 8 or 9 years ago. When I said I looked it up, I meant I looked up in my own records to see what I had paid for it.
spock is wrong. So are you. The ability to refine gold to at least the level we do today has existed for 2000 years, maybe longer. And if you look...
I found it on ebay. I looked it up - paid $69.
I'm sorry too, had no idea that's what you were talking about. Threw me off when you said FAQ. But to answer your question - by all means. You can...
It is a ducat of Alvise Mocenigo II, 1700-1709.
You can find quite a bit of what you want right here - http://www.cointalk.com/t13900/
You know why I think they say that ? Because they don't have any other explanation that they are willing to accept. They know it tones, the...
I don't think it's been polished, but I do think it's AU.
No idea what they go for now, but I paid less than $100 for that one.
This is the forum FAQ - http://www.cointalk.com/faq.php - you know that big link at the top of the page that says FAQ.
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