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Hi every1

 

I am Adit from Jalandhar, PB, India. I love collecting coins and I have more than 723 of them ( without including similiar coins ). Hopefully I will have more one day. Sole reason I joined is that there is no freaking coin shop in my city or anyone I know who collects coins.

 

 

Hello, Adit. The lack of a coin shop won't slow you down much. The best coins I've bought were "found in the wild" as some say. I'll bet you find some outstanding coins in the possession of people who have traveled outside India and even from municipal governments who accept coins for tolls, etc. Also people who own vending machines will often have unusual coins.

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Ed

In the return pocket of a Coinstar machine at Walmart, I found a handful of coins including 2 silver roosies and one 1892 A Greece silver half Drachma. The Greek coin went for about $10usd on ebay.

Hello All;

I have a coin that was installed in some jewlery at one time and I am wondering if anyone has any idea how to remove a small amount of solder left on the coin. The solder remaining is very small and only in one location on the rim of the coin.

Thanks

With all due respect to everyone here who guessed at how to remove the solder, they are all dead wrong. Do not attempt to heat the area of the solder with an iron. When coins are soldered in jewelry applications, the method is brazing and it is done with a torch or in an oven. The solder attached to a silver coin is almost always silver and is almost always hard solder, or .800fine. Soldering silver requires heating the entire piece to solder flow temperature because silver is the best conductor of heat of any metal, and heat sinking is difficult on anything other than light wire or shank stock. Removing solder from a piece of .900 fine silver whether it's a coin or a piece of jewelry should only be done by a qualified silversmith.

Also, be aware that heating the coin to the stage of red heat necessary for causing the solder to flow so that it can be vaccumed up with a bulb will also cause the copper in the alloy to bloom and the coin will then have to be pickled in a heated acid solution to return it to its silver color. Glazing the coin with a boric acid/ethanol solution will reduce the copper bloom, but will also have to be removed by pickling. Removing the solder is going to reduce the eye appeal of the rest of the coin which doesn't have the solder on it.

You should send it off to be restored or leave it alone, but trying to melt the hard solder with a soldering iron will not work and will cause discoloration.

I've bought slabbed coins to get an example I need for a customer. In that case i leave it in the slab, but the ones I've bought for myself are set free as soon as I can get time to do it.. For coins I'm keeping for myself, slabs are a hindrance, but they're no problem if I'm just getting something for someone who has asked me to find them one.

Darned if I'll pay an extra penny for the slab, though, and I'll sure enough disagree with a grade and pass on something that's below accepted standards for the stated grade on the slab. I've heard people say that having a grade assigned on a slab ends any speculation about the grade, but I don't really subscribe to that view.

You got a very good deal on the 1988. The last one I sold went for $95. Proofs are what I would collect if I decided to collect the SAEs. Sounds as though you're getting off to a good start. Welcome to CP. Check in often to tell about acquisitions and ask about this and that.

Well, the bell is slammin'. It kinda makes up for the coins. ;-)

Got a 1993 C-note a few months ago and have kept it in the back of the cash stack ever since. It's just kind of comforting to see the old style hundred from earlier days.

Got an unbearably cool chocolate coin laden Christmas card from Tiffi today with a Canada bunny nickel. Thanks, kiddo. You're the best.

A cool card w/ unc. euro cent coins from Harri. My daughter is taking the card to school to put on the Christmas card bulletin board. Thanks, Harri and Merry Christmas to you, too.

A Henry III silver penny from Aethling and a fat little bag of Canada sterling five centers from QC in Ontario. Thanks, gentlemen.

Slammin' large cent, AF.

Got some slammin' silver from Jose`. The French Indochine 50 cent is the best I've ever seen in person and it's MINE!! bwahahaha....

Good deal on the 70D, Jeff. Thanks

1947 Roossianvelt dime in F.

A silver 5 euro from Erik. Thanks, pal.

Prompt response to my whining. Very patient, and a straight shooter.

Diddly doodah. Nobody sends me anything anymore. boohoo.

So, Tiff. Do you agree with my assessment that it's apparently unc? I've seen way worse in PCGS MS63 holders.

Yep, the Lithuanian silver was my first acquisition after the release of Baltic stuff from Moscow. The Latvian silver has become my favorite nowadays. I particularly like the 5L crowns. I've had a few of the 2L which were beautifully toned from the bags.

Krause overvalues (IMO) the 1925 Latvian 2 Lati in unc as well. I have picked them up for $5-8 from dealers before and the catalog value is around $30. Maybe the catalog value was set before the bags of Baltic states silver started emerging from former Soviet vaults.

Good history lesson, Ian. The study of coins involves the study of history, politics and economics. Coins, tokens and medals are struck for reasons. Sometimes those reasons are preserved in history mainly as a result of the survival of the coins.

The SPLC is a pro-government group dedicated to taxation and subjugation of the American people by a self-defined cultural elite.

That's putting it mildly in regard to the goals of Morris Dees and his fraudulent organization. Anything that arouses the ire of that bunch of hucksters, thieves and liars can't be all bad. Still the NORFED plan doesn't strike me as being sound. If one wants to deal in hard money, there's no reason not to keep and hold actual precious metal coins instead of notes issued by anyone as convertible instruments.

Until there's hyperinflation, holding precious metal coinage will be viewed as commodity ownership.

Got these from a teller at the bank today.......

Oh, you did, huh? ahaha

Hungary 1894 10 Korona gold.

Yep, an '08 nickel is a cool find wherever it turns up. It's unusual but not unheard of for a V nickel to turn up in circulation.