How to Tone Coins

You know, there's something you can take for that.

​

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

I'd be paranoid working with O2 and H2 .

 

C'mon, who hasn't set up a simple H2 and O2 electrolysis with a battery and some water? We did it when I was 9, in 1964. We also travelled tens of thousands of miles in cars that didn't even have seatbelts. Oh, and we boiled ants in their own moisture with magnifying glasses and listened to Rat Pack records, too.

Danger was our middle name.

 

Not to mention the chemistry sets you guys had. How did any of you survive

 

Our parents spent more time teaching us about "stupid" than is the norm today. Part of that was allowing us to learn things the hard way sometimes; today, that gets a parent brought up on negligence charges.

 

Blind luck and a well-ventilated basement.

That, and finding out about computers just in time to avoid majoring in chemistry in college. I was a bit clumsy, a bit absent-minded, and a bit ambitious; in a field where you don't get "Undo" or "Restore from backup", I doubt I would've survived grad school.

 

Not even basement, outdoors on concrete. Seeing that hydrogen-rated regulators are found in the high temp soldering and welding supplies does open los ojos a bit, though.

My current plan involves a vacuum plate, bell jar, vacuum pump, and hydrogen gas. Put the coins on the plate, pump the air out, allow the H2 in, and watch. No ignition source nearby.

Solar heating, perhaps with Fresnel aiding, only.

 

Yes, especially in busybody counties like Philadelphia and the contiguous - less so in places like Lancaster and Berks. Our Sheriffs outright promote gun ownership and concealed carry permits.

 

Reminds me that one of the experiments Lavoisier did was to burn a diamond under a bell jar using a large lens to focus sun rays on it to prove a diamond was carbon. I have Fresnel lenses in each eye.

 

Yeah, my eye lenses have serial numbers, too. Cataracts, or were they Rincolns?

 

Cataracts, have them for several years now...when my eyes are turned just right in the light, I can see the concentric circles.

 

Nice one Kurt! But your racially insensitive micro aggressions are requiring me to retreat to my safe space lol

 

Rexus?

 

Chev-ro-ray...my wife is Japanese.

 

Ah yes, Antoine, nice guy until he lost his head.

 

I never seemed to get the gunpowder to ignite from the Saltpeter , charcoal and sulfur . Dang if I didn't try . Seems Illinois didn't allow the makers of the sets to put in the correct directions . Though we did make a makeshift "bazooka" from a CO2 cartridge stuffed with matchheads with a fuse , then put it in a long pipe aim and ignite .

 

You needed potassium nitrate, not sodium nitrate. Of course, you needn't ask how I know.

 

You can get today's population figures straight from PCGS. Why are you using 10 year old figures?
Lincolns - wheat;
brown = 76,676
r/b = 45,576
red = 264,894

HUH?

Now let me ask you. If someone has a roll of 1944 Lincolns, how many people would bother to grade a single brown coin? Even if you go back to 1927 (just to pick a date), how many brown coins are worth grading? Even a brown 1909 (+- VDB) might be worth $20 in 63-RB. Who is going to grade that? And a 64-RB graded goes for +-$40. How many people would you advice to get that graded? Hence, mostly red coins are getting graded simply because the others are not worth grading.

 

Ding, ding, ding - we have a winnah! This exposes the fallacy of getting hung up on pop reports - selective submission. People largely don't get garbage slabbed, except for strange reasons. You can't infer ANYTHING about a particular issue's overall pop from a PCGS pop report!!! I'll die before I buy the line that you can!

People who obsess on PCGS pops are missing the VAST majority of what's out there! What's in PCGS plastic is representative of nothing particularly useful.