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If you search for "magic coin" or "magician's coin", you will find a great many similar objects - just not from Germany. I have seen many such, posted on the forums before. A… (View Post)

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 ho… (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 … (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… (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)