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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.

If my wife helps me install the scanner pretty soon, I may be able to start providing some images. I'm an ignorant savage when it comes to computers. Any chore that doesn't require a hammer leaves me scratching my head and grunting. ;-)

Thanks. I just got an 1890 half sovereign from a local gold buyer for BV+2%. That was my first jubilee gold.

What's next? Probably commemorative coins for the first dogs or for senators' girlfriends. Actually, it makes little difference what images they impress upon these worthless pot metal tokens. The hard truth is beginning to take hold even among the mass of TV hypnotized people that this crap isn't real money. Gold and silver are real money. Paper and pot metal are tokens whose only value lies in legal tender laws requiring subjects of the issuing authority to pretend that they are valuable. Pure nonsense from a gaggle of morally retarded, self proclaimed rulers whose time is almost up.

I buy all of my world gold from a few small timers I trust, usually. Getting hold of a tough type may send me to Camino Coin sometimes, but generally, I get a piece or two a month from a little hole in the wall shop in the combat zone , downtown in Richmond. I may try your source pretty soon.

5 '05-D new Bison nickels from Fjord the Valiant. The D's won't turn up around here (Virginia) in circulation for quite awhile, I'm sure.

Yes, I meant Victoria. Thanks for the link.

The bottom is a Newfie (Newfoundland, Canada) 5 cent silver made into a love token. It has my favorite British obverse image, the Young Head Victoria, which should make it easy to narrow down the missing date to a certain range , say 1865-96.

If I'm not mistaken, Brasso leaves behind a residue which is supposed to stop tarnish. You'll need to wash it thoroughly in hot, soapy water with a trace of ammonia to strip the Brasso from the surfaces. Once your coin is back to the clean metal, retoning will begin. Give it 20 years in a cheap manila or wrapped in that 1st grader's wide ruled paper and your penny will be back up to snuff.

There must be a British version of the Safe T Mailer, isn't there? I usually use those for all coin mailings because they make a flat, solid package which doesn't reveal the shape of the coin inside. I just ran out and had to mail a few pieces in the old way. Hope they're going to arrive safely.

I have one that was restraightened but it's worn badly and is black as tar. Glad to know the story behind the bent silver LizI 6ds.

The only info I can give is that I'd love to acquire a medal like that. I think that Victoria must have been strikingly beautiful as a young lady, especially with that lovely Hapsburg nose.

I've had PVC gunk on lots of silver but never on gold. Still, it can happen. With gold there's less chance of any attack on the surface since gold isn't a reactive metal like silver is. BTW, is a young head half sovereign in VF usually worth only bullion value?

Congrats. It was likely just some degraded PVC.

Actually, it's legal to carry rolls of Zonga. The Nudnik is currently the prohibited denomination. The Zonga being so scarce, insufficient revenue was being generated by the legislation, so a tweaking of the text was in order.

Well, today I got an '83-O Morgan in EF and the mailman had diddly doo-dah to do with it. ahaha. Sometimes I crack my ownself up.

You're welcome. I hope you do find a 1943 bronze someday. Then I could say that the guy who turned up the latest example is someone I cyber-know. ;-)

It looks like a steel cent with a rusty rim to me. Stick it to a magnet and you'll see.

Seriously, is the crack a die crack or is it n the planchet? looks more like a line from a die crack in the pic.

Great coins, good prices and very quick shipping. Bill's packaging is meticulously careful too.

Demonetization of coins and currency is an act of tyranny and fraud. The US government has already done that in a few cases. It will become the norm as the dollar sinks further in value. The practice of demonetizing circulating instruments of exchange is part of the buildup to hyperinflation. Mexico has been doing it for decades.

On many subjects, I don't even suspect anything. ;-)

It's pretty humid here(central Virginia), too. The water table is so high that bored wells are productive as shallow as 20-30 feet. I've developed an allergy to mold spores which seem to be airborne here year-round.

If you are serious about your lenses and loupes, microscopes, telescopes and planetariums, then you buy Zeiss. Zeiss microscopes and binoculars are indeed very fine , but their single lens loupes are no better than B&L loupes though they cost more in the US. In a loupe, the price differential isn't worth it, IMO. Multilens devices are a different matter, though I don't know any coin collectors who use anything other than a pocket loupe or handheld magnifier.

Probably a red arrow. ;-)