I just went off to check, and as I thought, US State Quarters and America The Beautiful quarters are all slabbed reverse-forward -- by PCGS, NGC,...
So... how do you assign a "strike quality" grade component to an unstruck planchet?
For anyone else who stumbles across this, although I guess it'll be common knowledge In The Future: apparently they ARE changing the position with...
And that answers a question posed in this other thread, I believe!
I was going to ask about the dimensions of a stylus -- somehow, in the isolated photos, they looked impractically large to me. This mosaic puts...
Looks like a dryer coin to me. Caught in the mechanism of a clothes dryer, rolled long enough to squeeze down the edge. I've seen a lot of coins...
A literally priceless coin, or 15-20 troy ounces of easily-sold gold? You or I wouldn't think of melting such a thing, but lots of people would.
This one?
What a difference a photo can make! Nice find, @Was511!
Oh, I find that a little hard to believe. Surely it's just that you aren't willing to sell off enough of your current collection to fund it? ;)...
I'm inclined toward "splashed with something corrosive", but it's a bit hard to tell from a photo of a screen showing a photo of a coin......
Yep, it was more costly, and also novel. Metal utensils, almost as shiny as silver -- but light as a feather. Almost magical. At least until you...
So do I -- just not on me. :rolleyes: Super-nice! Maybe one day I'll own a bust dollar, but likely not this early nor this nice.
Or, for that matter, want change for it? ;)
I assume if I get my choice of labware, I also get my choice of experiments. Molten lye? Fluorine? NO THANKS. :eek:
I got a rock tumbler for Christmas one year when I was very young. I was super-excited about it until I read the instructions, which said you were...
Given my choice for labware, though, I'd pick platinum every time. It just doesn't STAY as pretty or malleable as gold. Why do people flock to...
I've been meaning to try my ultrasonic cleaner on some crusted-up coins. I plan to use a nylon net to suspend them, instead of putting them in the...
There are lots of people who know how to sell on eBay or FB, but wouldn't know how to find a scrapper. They may have gone to a "WE BUY GOLD"...
Ed! Sadly, I believe he perished in a tragic collision between his business jet and his Lamborghini. I'd provide links, but it looks like CT has...
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