1968 was the last year we could redeem Silver Certificates for actual silver. If you had a $5. dollar bill you would get a little silver bar, if...
LOL, if you Canucks get jittery visiting us in the USA. You should go down and visit our southern neighbor. That's a whole different level of...
We will always be good friends. When we American's go up to Canada to visit they treat us like the neighbors we are.
I want to thank daveydempsey for his tip on using Ammonia to clean silver. I had two Italian 83% silver coins: 1860 50 Centesimi and 1884 1 Lira....
Beautiful craftsmanship in those carvings. Just think of the work involved in making that furniture.
Yes, I've been a member over there for a few years now. And cleaning coins is considered taboo with most collectors, but I'm not a purist. Some...
Yes, I think you might be right. I tried the WD-40 and it had no affect. I have now put the coin in Xylene to see if that might work. The funny...
I'm an avid coin collector and I'm familiar with the different types of corrosion. This green gunk is more like an old green adhesive/putty substance
Hi everybody, I'm coming over from the sister site "Coin Talk". I'm an avid collector of pre-1860 Italian coins and I also love vintage fine...
Thanks for the advise, the green gunk on this silver coin looks just like the posted Cheshire bowl pic and is very hard. I am going to give it...
I do believe the coin had been adhered to something in the distant past. The Italians would use silver coins for all kinds of things from from...
Does anybody know if that green putty had a purpose ? I have an Italian silver coin from the 1680's that has a similar looking, very hard green...
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