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Calcium chloride is useful for large cabinets and other enclosed spaces. It's usually loaded into a fine mesh bag and suspended over a plastic bucket. The water it attracts from the air works its way to the bottom of the bag and drips into the bucket.

The water always carries some of the chemical with it into the bucket, really just a trace, but enough to cause corrosion. It's a method best confined to closets for clothing, IMO. Silica gel is my choice for keeping moisture out of my storage boxes and bins.

There are basically two kinds of loupe:

1. Bausch&Lomb

2. the others

Hope that was helpful. ;-)

It's a shame to see the world's oldest republic going along with the latest European sovietization scheme. RIP, San Marino.

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1883-CC Morgan Dollar PCGS MS 64

Old style PCGS slab #07144.64/7161423

Nice white coin, nearly mirrored fields w/ frosty devices. Strong reverse strike. Crack this one out and try for a 65 if you like.

$285 plus registered mail fees.

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Canada, Newfoundland 1929 silver 5 cent lustrous AU, mildly toned w/ three tiny rim ticks on the obverse. $7.50 delivered worldwide

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Sweden 1875 ST 50 Ore VG .600 fine silver Large lettering ( I think). Dark toning, no nicks, dings, scratches, just even wear w/ original surfaces.

$4.00 delivered worldwide

Oh and spending obsolete money is illegal here because it's demonetised. People tend to hit the roof if you slip them a similar sized old five pence for a new ten pence. They hate it.

 

Although they'll happily take old 50 pences because some vending machines accept them as £2 coins and there's a profit to be made out of them.

I regard the demonetization of coins and currency as an act of tyranny and fraud.

Any silver I get is MINE!!!  Someday I expect the mint will ask us "junk silver hoarders" to send them in.  Something along the lines of "If you send us $x.xx face in U.S. silver coins, we will send you a pedigreed silver eagle."  Now THAT would be cool.

 

Jerry

If the feds ask for anything I've got they'll get my standard reply of "KMA". ahaha

I've released rolls of wheats back into the stream, and I usually spend any base metal dollar coins or halves I get.

A fellow I do a little business with from time to time sold his 1895 proof Morgan. It was black as tar and still brought top dollar. Dark toning on a coin doesn't change the grade, it's just notable if you're selling it sight unseen. Key date Lincolns seldom get net graded because of dark toning or for any other such mild loss of eye appeal. Some people even like dark toned bronzes.

Now, common date Lincolns are a different matter. Those get culled for minor reasons, I've noticed.

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Back to the subject at hand. The way you described the drying agent suggests that it actually is calcium chloride. That would impart a greasy feel to a surface when wet and should be rinsed thoroughly with water until it's all gone. If you left it in contact with the coins, they're most likely ruined by now, assuming that calcium chloride is the compound.

The prohibition against cleaning coins shouldn't be taken to such an extreme as to keep one from saving one's coins from chemical damage.

If you would settle for silver, I still have one 1925 2Z silver for sale.

Thanks, Kevin. I've been offered some and didn't want to pick them up if there's no demand because they'd be used as trade material anyway.

Is a flat clinch staple really needed? Is an everyday normal stapler fine for this job? That is how all but two or three of my carded coins are stapled.

For me, the flat clinch is an improvement because I use a lot of 2x2s selling coins at the flea market to support my own coin habit. The MAX staplers (I have both the mini and the standard) staple almost effortlessly and the staple is much lower profile than a regular one, but still requires flattening if you're going to be taking the holder out of the pocket pages a lot or mixing sizes of coins in a storage box.

I had always used a standard stapler until the MAX came along and I was amazed at how easily the MAX penetrates the cardboard. I've used up thousands of staples in the mini stapler and have never had one fail to pierce the cardboard, while standard staplers would often leave a bent staple on top of the 2x2.

I have the Turks/Caicos silver Churchill commem which is like a Churchill crown on steroids. PM for details if you like.

Which among the half penny tokens are more in demand among collectors of Canadian bank tokens?

There are key date Jeff's?

From the presidential dollar coin bill passed by the house on 4/27/05

 

5          (7) at such time as the Secretary of Treasury

6      determines to be appropriate, and after consultation

7      with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve

8      System and the submission of notice to the Con-

9      gress, the Secretary should declare to be obsolete

10      any circulating $1 coin that bears the design of the

11      $1 coins being issued immediately before the

12      issuance of coins with the design referred to in sec-

13      tion 5112(n)(7) of title 31, United States Code;

 

Sounds to me like they want to collect up all the SBA's and melt them down.

Look carefully. This is an abdication of the power of Congress to coin money. It simply hands off to an appointed bureaucrat the authority to increase the supply of (non) circulating coinage thereby increasing the money supply and furthering inflation. Note that the requirement is for "consultation with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System" while merely making a "submission of notice to the Congress" before exercising what is clearly an exclusive Section I power of Congress under the Constitution.

This is a typical piece of unconstitutional trash which should never have been passed and which can be challenged in the courts. While Congress is granted the power to coin money, it is not granted the authority to transfer that power to the Executive branch or to hand over that power to any outside agency whatsoever.

Yes, it's a formalization of the intent to declare circulating coinage obsolete and to demonetize it and replace it with new designs which are equally worthless for any purpose other than increasing an already inflated supply of fiat money. Disgusting.

Silver coins can be Restored via Electrolysis.

Put some slightly salty water in a Stainless steel pot use a car battery and connect the + to the Coin and the - to the pot.

The current is supposed to remove the silver from the corrosion and plate it back on the coin.

I have never tried this so I don't know if it would work.

Ahem....Don't try this at home. Actually the electrolysis process is more complicated. You need an non-conductive container, a small ferrous plate for an anode and the coin should be placed in a screwtop type silver frame and suspended in a solution of sodium carbonate and water (not salt).

Any DC power source will work in such a small rig so long as the source is manually operated. I can do this for you if you need it done, but for a little spot of green copper bloom, soak your coin in ammonia or dip it in Tarnex and the result will be fine. Anyway, I'm of the opinion that verdigris won't eat a silver coin the way it will a bronze or copper coin.

1899-O Morgan, 1881-0 Morgan, 1893 Veiled Head Crown. The '81-O is already on the WTS forum. Wrong VAM for my purposes.

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US silver dollar

1881-O Morgan Vam 2 ANACS AU58 2491595

Strong reverse strike, apparent MS to me, so this one's a crackout candidate.

$30.00 plus $1.50 1st class insured domestic postage. Add $1.50 for int'l airmail.

Was it that calcium chloride granule material sold under the name of Damp-Rid? That stuff is corrosive to most metals when wet. I hope your collection isn't too badly affected.

if you've eliminated PVC scuzz as the culprit, it's probably copper bloom of some sort. Since you were willing to use MS70, you should be as comfortable with Tarnex which has the same thiosulphite composition as MS70 but with none of the useless, film leaving surfactant that MS70 contains.

Dunk them in Tarnex for about 90 seconds or so and the copper preferential thiosulphate will attack the green boogers and leave you with a cool looking coin again. Don't forget to rinse under running water, warm or cold for several seconds after the dunk.

Yeah, unfortunately I'd have to sell some land to come up with the cash, though. That ain't gonna happen this year. ;-)