I thought was a good post Mike - shoulda left it.
They are mostly just scuff marks and not scratches. I see no damage that would prevent the coins being graded.
Clinker you have surpassed yourself :thumb: If you were to go far enough back into the CT archives you would find an old Trivia question I...
First of all you don't make the mint do anything. You get Congress to do it. The mint only does what the lawmakers tell them to do. Secondly,...
It's because there is so much evidence of wear everywhere else. All of the devices show signs of wear, even the fields show wear.
Based on the pics I see nothing that tells me they should be. What do you see that tells you they should ?
'79 - Au, '91 - Xf
Yes, he was a spammer. It was a rather unique and uncommon method, but Peter spotted it and gave him the boot. An no I will not discuss the method...
Do you have Microsoft Office ? If so it comes with a utility program called Microsoft Picture Publisher. You cna use that to do many of the...
A few different options. You could send it to a TPG but I wouldn't. I'd send to one of the error/variety experts like Potter or Byers. The TPG may...
I am saying Os is more dense, it is 22610 vs 22560 for iridium.
I think 500 lbs, if concentrated to 1 sq in (about the size of the bottom of a salt shaker), would go thru the table.
It's because it changes depending on temperature. In liquid it drops to 19. The source was probably just a typo, they reversed the 5 and 6 is all.
Tiny oooops - iridium is 22560
I understand pal. And I also understand, now, that it was a rediculous comment. But then I never bothered to look it up and figure it out. But 40...
I think it was more that you didn't really explain what you wanted to know. Based on your previous posts it sounded like you doubted the very...
No, that was just the description used in the book. They said flat out that a salt shaker full of it would crash through your kitchen table and...
Perhaps he doesn't like it because of the way it looks ?
All I can say is what I said was in my chemistry book all those years ago. That was exactly how they described it.
I'm not an error guy but I am inclined to agree. That one might be worth sending in.
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