The "weird" metals The more unusual metals I've worked with have included Titanium, Niobium, Tantalum, Hafnium, and high-purity Iron. They have...
Photos of burst collar... Here's a pic of one of the nine decent examples of the new pig knob design that were struck before the collar burst......
Regular "Zincoln" pennies are struck on plated blanks... so the surface is as-struck... but if you plate on TOP of that, you will get the visible...
Thanks to all and especially JBK! It is the greatest compliment of all to hear that you may put your creativity to work inspired by my knobs!!...
Flip inserts I make mine up in CorelDraw and print them out. I usually do them 1.5" in size spaced 1.6" apart... so they fit into the flip...
Intrinsic value of money I concur with all the folks who are saving copper cents without intent to melt. It seems silly to melt the stuff when it...
The Story behind Leif Eiricsson's coins. Actually... no collar is used on these coins... they are "broadstruck" as some might say, "splash...
I'm gathering (not hoarding) copper from any source. I pull coppers out of penny bags. You can tell 1982 zinkies from coppers by flipping the...
Eddy the Eagle? That must have just whiffed over my head... I don't understand. But the mention of Cnut is right on. We often use real-world...
Still no correct guesses... by the way, I researched the geography for the book very precisely. Every street and house actually exists, and I...
Silver Penny Mailed I've mailed out the silver penny... the actual same one in the photograh... to the winner Hepcat. I hope he'll let us know...
Still no correct answers...... I'm working up another contest... but I don't want to run more than one at a time, so waiting for somebody to...
Yeah I was looking for a day of the week also... just to make it a little harder... but no, October 13 of neither 2007 nor 2017 is it.
Still no hits!
Hi Wolves69: Do you have any image processing software? The raw pics have everything you need, but the background paper is showing letters...
If you file a schedule SE (self-employed) and speciify your occupation as 'coin dealer' then I think you can take losses as well as profits.
more contests This is kinda fun, there will be more chances... but I have to think of harder questions that cannot just be googled up... which is...
Oooh! I didn't know about the eclipse! Might have to write that into the sequel.... but still no correct answers. Tom
Still no hits.
No winner yet I don't want to say too much for fear of giving too many hints... but none of the answers are correct so far. Some good tries...
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