I bought a collection from eBay soon after I got back into the hobby, late in 2010, for somewhere around $1600. (Don't judge, I was enthusiastic,...
As I understand it, most hazing on proofs is actually toning, not organic deposits, so acetone is unlikely to help. Careful dipping (in a chemical...
Nope. Oh, it will clean coins -- but if you pile them in like the jewelry in the picture, or put them in in a metal basket, they'll come out with...
Yep, I remember having quite a few T-shirts with bleached-out necks. Getting old is no picnic, but youth wasn't all sunshine and puppies either,...
I'd read about the late-1980s run-up (here and elsewhere), but apparently had quite a few of the basic facts confused. I found a thread on...
Hmm... another proof?
I remember a craft/hobby store I frequented in my teenage years sold supplies for making Lucite casts -- molds, cans of monomer, and bottles of...
As I understand it, the return period is now SEVEN days. They tightened it down a couple of years ago, as I recall.
Yeah, that one brought me up short for a minute, too.
Maybe -- but an unethical dealer always has things to market unethically. A coin with a nonexistent date would be a much heavier lift for a...
The Mint would be absolutely as dumb as a rock to make these anything other than unlimited-mintage, at least 5 per household, preferably no...
Sigh. And I'll line up to buy them, at an exorbitant markup, grumbling the whole time. :grumpy:
Yep. I got a full set of gold-plated quarters in a fancy multi-drawer wooden cabinet as part of an eBay lot. Took forever to get rid of that...
Heh. In one mixed lot I bought on eBay years ago, there were five one-GRAM copper bars -- in a baggie, with a receipt. At some point, someone...
Local shows in my area (central NC), even the smallest ones with a dozen or so dealers, always had a least a couple of tables with silver bars....
So, that's a ten month delay -- or, from the coins' perspective, a "very brief pause". ;)
@CSANDS, I hope you'll keep this thread posted on what you find out -- that's a really cool pair! Welcome to CoinTalk!
Ah, OK, I was confused by what you wrote -- you said "69% of spot silver", which I interpreted as 31% below melt. I see now that you actually...
I don't get this point. There's one spread between buy price and sell price. If the spread is too wide, the dealer will run out of either material...
No. It's not a binary thing, where the alloy is either attacked or untouched. I don't know that 14K test acid would damage 22K gold, but I...
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