Did the Sniffer visit the Smithsonian?
MrEureka
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OK, that's a silly title for this thread. But you opened it, and now you have to click here.
I am seriously intrigued. What are your thoughts on this?
I am seriously intrigued. What are your thoughts on this?
Andy Lustig
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
Doggedly collecting coins of the Central American Republic.
Visit the Society of US Pattern Collectors at USPatterns.com.
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"Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
http://www.americanlegacycoins.com
Also, from what I have heard, there's a facility in Australia that can analyze most of the metallic content, but unfortunately not all, or even all the way though the item in question.
The trouble with having anything to do with sending items through the mail overseas is because of the Patriot Act. Unless you are willing to purchase a round trip plane ticket, and carry the item in your carry-ons, after it gets declared and goes though customs (which is getting very difficult), it simply isn't worth the trouble or the price to get a compostional analysis done elsewhere.
The SI has numerous gold items that would benefit from metallic analysis, among those would be the gold bars that came from the Lilly Collection "donation" in 1968.