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It does in part depend on the storage environment. The thing that causes PVC damage is solvent migration of the phthalate plasticizers out of the PVC onto the coins, and the main thing that accelerat… (View Post)

There are plenty of surviving records mentioning money; very very few of them talk about what we consider as "denominations", and none of them mention this specific denomination. Most survi… (View Post)

Yep, this wold be in the "tourist fake" class. Fairly crudely made and wrong metal (tetradrachms of Nero are supposed to be silver). Here's a genuine example: https://www.vcoins.com/en/stor… (View Post)

To be more specific, they are making minuscule quantities of radioactive gold, the isotope gold-203, which has a half-life of about a minute. This is what the article means when it says "each at… (View Post)

I'm not entirely certain of the difference between this suggestion and an old-fashioned consortium buying a coin? Seems to me a case of just throwing the word "blockchain" in there to attra… (View Post)