1969-S Lincoln Memorial Cent

Coop, you got me curious--are these digitally edited or are they fakes?

Of course some of us would have:-)

The problem with mercury, is not in the eating so much, as in the HEATING. The vapors are very poisonus, (sp). That was one of the very first thing the old gold miners found our when they were amalgamizing the gold, (disolving the gold with the mercury, and then putting in a potato to "bake the mercury off, leaving the gold pellet. The portato was poisoned, and the fumes from the baking caused more than a few miners to die.
Latr: I was trying to remember the name of the natural state in which mercury, or 'quicksilver" appears. I think it is feldspar. The pellet, bythe way will appear to be a golden piece of cheese, not a solid nugget. getting back to the vapors, the first thing we were warned about was the mercury vapor rectifier tubes, used th "rectify the AC, voltage to Pulsating DC". All electronic equipment used the vacuum tubes. The rectifier, was just one of them, BUT the most dangerous, as well.
Dick

We have an old Cinnabar mine near where I live--the New Almaden mine. This was active from Spanish colonial days through the gold rush, and I'm sure it supplied all the needs for mining. To this day, you cannot eat fish taken from local lakes due to mercury accumulating in the food chain.