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Whichever solvent you use - ethanol, isopropanol, acetone, butanone, xylene, and others - it will almost certainly have at least begun to dissolve immediately. If it's not gone within half an hour, f… (View Post)

It looks like that because that's exactly what happened - someone "stamped a penny into the quarter", using some tool that applied considerable force - enough force to bend and squash the q… (View Post)

My collecting interests are extremely broad - I collect local and foreign, ancient mediaeval and modern. It's impossible for me to get "bored with it", since it's all so different. I could … (View Post)

Museums would never entrap and entomb an artifact inside a plastic coffin where people could never examine it - for the museum mindset, the whole point of holding artifacts is so that professional ex… (View Post)

The "best counterfeit coins in my collection" are, obviously, the ones I don't know are counterfeit - they've fooled everybody. I've got about 14,500 coins in my collection and only 41 of t… (View Post)