Mercury Dime Mystery

when you drop it on a table, does it have the same ring as a silver dime?

The forum saw the "@" and parsed it as an email address; hence the look of a hyperlink. I left it in place to confound the scammers who try to strip published emails from individual sites. Go ahead and spam that one, boys.

That, by the way, is why we hide email addresses when you post them in threads. This place is very efficiently indexed by Google, making us prominent in collector Google searches (a good thing) but also prominent in spammer Google searches (not so bueno). So we act to protect our members' emails.

Noted, totally understandable, and appreciated super Dave. This is a GREAT site.

Well Alibaba makes some real good fakes... and just for the record these "fakes" I have are about 50 yrs old. Don't know if that makes any difference, if they're fake they're fake.