Oh, and welcome! Other members will have some more thorough responses.
The silica gel is good. Are you in a high humidity area? That green may be a contaminant.
Looks like a 39. But just a regular high grade with luster.
And of course trade dollars ciculated overseas.
I'm a born sceptic, first off, so this be a little biased. But whether that's gold or not, something seems off when you show up two days ago and...
Well I understand the elements with the Latin symbols. I have always seen gold written Au though, with that little non-Latin letter u.
That's a great nickel box.
Did not know that. Thanks.
So when you say AV you mean Au right? Gold? Is it a language thing?
They'll let anyone have ebay accounts these days.
Picked up the 1980 version of Swiatek's book for 11 bucks shipped. Figure it's a good start.
It's a little more daunting because you're learning markers on 50 different designs, where a normal series has a lot of the same markers over a...
Whoa, yeah it is pricey. But it seems to be the authority.
Well ideally no. I may have to for some, though, depending on cost.
So this series has intrigued me for a while, and I've decided to collect it raw, hopefully in it's entirety and fill in the Dansco 7095 album....
This is true. I found one of those recently, looked like this: [ATTACH]
That's true too. I'm guessing she just didn't really care to explain the process well. Or maybe she was just working the counter and doesn't...
I don't buy it. She has a smelter in the back room? And what's she going to do with a .900 silver bar? Maybe she sells them off in bulk at melt...
Depends on the date/mm and the grade.
After looking at the pictures, I knew you were going to get a lot of responses you don't like. There's crud in the hard to reach (when cleaning)...
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