One more quick observation: there's no "neutralizing" acetone. Rinsing with clean acetone will carry away any dissolved materials. Rinsing a coin...
There are big pits on the obverse of the coin. The metal that used to be where those pits are got corroded away. What's left of the coin naturally...
For the coins you pictured, a third party spent a few cents each applying a decal or a layer of plating, and then sold them for multiple dollars...
The only way to reduce a Trade Dollar's value to melt is to obliterate all its detail, most especially the date. As this thread illustrates, even...
My first Morgan was a gift from my own grandfather, probably 50 years ago. It was an 1881-S, too. :) He's been gone since a few years after that,...
Time travel is notoriously hard on the lungs. ;) Thanks for sharing these excellent coins, and excellent writeup!
With unlimited patience, you could eventually get a better example for the same money, or a similar example for less money -- but nobody's...
I don't see the things I usually notice on a fake, but I'm a bit worried about the top of the second L in DOLLAR. I assume the weight and...
That big ol' obverse scratch is still clear on the original listing photo. I would've taken one look at that shot and said "details coin".
Same here. I was blown away that it arrived today.
Wow. I mean, there are plenty of lame threads moldering in CoinTalk's cellar, but this one was way down there in the "low-quality bait" bin...
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I think they wanted it for the cabinet. I had to wave off one buyer who was looking to buy it for their "grandchild who's started collecting...
So you're straight-up assuming that we're rolling tax evasion into the calculation. I mean, if you think the whole economic system is going to...
Yep, I got an entire set of gold-plated state quarters as one (unwanted) part of a big lot I bought on eBay years ago. In their "fine" wooden...
New* source for silver * 500M years old, but still newer than the neutron star merger that produced it
Not when I've sold -- the PayPal fee is the PayPal fee. They did at one point have different fees depending on whether the payment came from a CC...
Well, I let it play for half an hour or so, but now I've got to take my laptop to a service appointment. :(
The "Oreo-cookie" effect in that fourth photo is always a dead giveaway for chemical damage -- the softer copper gets etched away more quickly...
AMEX restored the benefits you get, but as @masterswimmer and @messydesk pointed out, they're still more expensive for the seller. The first...
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