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Slightly OT, Since it's not Darkside and not a coin.

I recently did a trade with somone in the US, he got a Cartwheel Twopence and gained my BU Washington quarters for my set.

But i am also truely delighted with this piece he sent too;

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Whilst personally i care little for the design (firstly because it's a proof and i'm not a fan of proofs and secondly because i really despise that Buffalo reverse). But overlooking those minor problems and the fact that it's not even a coin. But what it is, is Palladium!

So this piece has just gone into my metallic elements collection. Currently consisting of copper, silver, gold, mercury, lead, aluminium, zinc, nickel, iron, magnesium, calcium and now Palladium! Yay!!

I think i had some manganese and molybdenum somewhere too, oh an titanium.

Gallium is the next on the list with a bit of luck.

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  • CladiatorCladiator Posts: 18,073 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How is palladium on the metal market...more or less than gold? platinum?
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584
    Current reports have it at about $190 per ounce.


    So less than Gold and Platinum but a lot more than silver.


    Rhodium is right up there at $1990 per ounce.
  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Gallium is the next on the list with a bit of luck. >>

    Peel apart a fire sprinkler image

    or raid your Uni's chemistry lab image
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,657 ✭✭✭✭✭
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  • wybritwybrit Posts: 6,967 ✭✭✭
    Cool concept (I think I remember you posting about this a while back). Do you have any lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium or cesium? How about the highly toxic beryllium? One of my favorites at the London Science Museum was the elements exhibit.
    Former owner, Cambridge Gate collection.
  • SylvestiusSylvestius Posts: 1,584


    << <i>Cool concept (I think I remember you posting about this a while back). Do you have any lithium, sodium, potassium, rubidium or cesium? How about the highly toxic beryllium? One of my favorites at the London Science Museum was the elements exhibit. >>




    I saw some sodium on ebay a few months back, proper stuff under the parafin.

    Alas i kept getting outbid, usually by about £2. I haven't seen any in a while, i lost three auctions on the stuff, wasn't to be obviously.


    I do know a place that sells all of the above to the element collector however they will not ship the group 1 metals outside of the US, funnily enough they'll ship all the others including Beryllium.

    There is a place in the UK that sells entire element collection complete (minus the really dangerous stuff, i.e uranium etc.). They shove in all the group 1 stuff (except Francium obviously) but what i don't like about that is they also include a few of the weaker low grade specimen radioactive elements. They probably wouldn't do you that much damage (afterall even granit gives of a fair bit of radiation), but i definately don't want to be messing round with carciogens of that nature. Arsenic's bad enough.

    Although i don't have any arsenic i do have some Realgar/Orpiment (Arsenic Sulphides) in my mineral collection, which is also extremely toxic and a carciogen.

    I don't mind poisonous elements such as mercury, infact they intrigue me but i'm not keen on having tons are carciogens around the building as you can imagine. Hence why i don't have any cadmium, yet. Although that's something else i have come across on ebay.


  • << <i> Although i don't have any arsenic i do have some Realgar/Orpiment (Arsenic Sulphides) in my mineral collection, which is also extremely toxic and a carciogen. >>



    I guess there are a few mineral collectors among us Darksiders, I too have Realgar, and too many other specimens...... image
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