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"Ordinary" seems to have become a polite way of saying "normal". Polite, in the negative sense that saying "you're not ordinary" is not usually considered an insult… (View Post)

I think it was set up supposed to be "Ask PCGS a question - presumably about PCGS and the things PCGS are doing, rather than the price of eggs or what have you - and PCGS representatives will tr… (View Post)

Yes. Slow and patient repeated annealing is the key, heat and quenching to try to shrink the crystals inside the silver. Google "straighten a bent mediaeval coin" and you should get a coupl… (View Post)

I snapped a 2500 year old ancient coin in half. Silver has an interesting property, almost unique to silver: as it ages, it "crystallizes", making it more brittle. So a piece of silver that… (View Post)

Such disparities can only exist when civilizations exist in isolation, with minimal contact or trade between them. If you were a Mesopotamian merchant and found out that those crazy Egyptians were ha… (View Post)