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Jeweller's solder is different from electronics solder - it's made with a high silver and/or gold content, and is deliberately designed to blend into the coin's surface at an atomic le… (View Post)

It's just a reminder, again: "reputable" does not mean "they never make mistakes", it means "they try really hard to not make mistakes, and on the rare but inevitable oc… (View Post)

They have to mention the counterstamp prominently, because it is a catalogued counterstamp, If it was just some random letters stamped long ago by some random unidentified person, the coin wouldn… (View Post)

I have had some interesting discussions with non-collectors. Some people simply "don't get it", in terms of what motivates collectors. One old friend of the family simply couldn't… (View Post)

Although Charles Lindbergh probably couldn't read, write or speak Swedish, there is a national connection: Lindbergh's father emigrated to America from Sweden as a child. (View Post)