It's been in that ANACS SWH for 20 years. So it's pretty stable. But it has been there a long time and may have done permanent damage to the...
Hah - piker. REAL Programmers didn't use BASIC - BEGINNERS All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code was for lib arts weenies. Real programmers could...
Yeah and I had to find and cite primary sources. Wikipedia didn't exist and would not have been accepted. But even then standards were...
If you read the article, they sanded each copper "coupon" (their word). That would remove the outer layer of oxide...
And PhotoSuckIt really doesn't care... they are trying to find a business model that pays for storage and connectivity costs. Advertising didn't...
Interesting... "X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy studies have shown that acetone, when used as a cleaning agent for copper in the presence of...
I don't think coin talk was the use case they are gunning for. More like the people hosting hundreds and thousands of images for eBay & sites like...
Well, they say coin collecting is going to the dogs...
Does it happen occasionally across ALL coins or only on specific coins (e.g. potentially something in the alloy used by X or at time Y)?
If you are talking truly high value objects, any reputable coin dealer will be happy to serve as the intermediary (informal escrow), for a fee....
Wait a minute... I'm getting an image... Peanut Butter.
As dies get used more and more (over used), the letters get mushy and spread towards the rim. That plus circulation wear...
Look above the memorial it's got exactly the same effect.
Damaged coins are worth FACE - if you can convince somebody to take them.
Scanners are not designed for 3d objects. Each lens is prefocused a tiny bit above the glass and does not have a large depth-of-field. In the...
That's one of the early Accugrade slabs before they discovered the joys of market grading. Die clashes are incredibly common on 3cs. The...
To sell. For Money.
CoinFacts still says unique. Update us when you actually get it back outside of a body bag. 1943: RB:...
It's really easy to tell the two buffaloes apart. If it stands there placidly, it's a water buffalo. If it tries to run down the jeep just to butt...
First off, I meant what I said, because a Roman soldier was paid the same across the entire empire and that implies a rough ability to assign...
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