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If wondering whether you need to wear gloves to handle coins, consider this: What kind of gloves does PCGS use when they handle coins sent to them for grading? Answer: none, usually. According to thi… (View Post)

It derives from the new, revolutionary concept of "decimal currency", where each currency subunit was worth 1/10th of the previous. The mil was 1/1000th of the unit; the cent was 1/100th, t… (View Post)

The use of "unit" as a quasi-alternative name for the dollar derives from the language written into the Coinage Act of 1792, from which the coinage derived it's legal existence. All referen… (View Post)

Most of the things used in modern paints are industrial solvents - toluene, xylene, acetone, such like. They're exactly the kinds of solvents we would normally recommend to clean coins with. So in ge… (View Post)

Let me do the maths: New coins (so far) acquired in 2024: 347 New coins acquired in 2023: 158 So one might well assume another 200 to 300 would be added in 2025. But after 35+ years of singleness I'v… (View Post)