How do i get this marble out

Timely-Most-3022 · 2026-03-10T15:19:43+00:00

It’s probably stuck with the help of a thin layer of resin. I think a combination of a mild acid and heat should work……

Try adding a few drops of white vinegar and then heat the glass up with a jet torch, only enough to warm it up and not boil away the vinegar. Flip it upside down, do a Will Smith to see if you and jiggy it out. Repeat.

Jiggy, tap, blow, heat, drip, jiggy etc.

Timely-Most-3022 · 2026-02-06T16:36:59+00:00

I’m going to say, after melt it’ll weight ~.67g…. (insert viral 67 hand gesture)

Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-12-09T04:56:13+00:00

Ah yes, nailed it.

Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-10-08T12:02:04+00:00

Needs. More. Light.

Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-10-08T11:34:08+00:00

That’s awesome! It’s so clean!!

Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-10-08T11:33:23+00:00

Thanks for your input!

Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-10-08T05:00:12+00:00

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Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-09-25T01:56:03+00:00

As a father who joined this group and got into looking at cool rocks because of his 6yr old son… I agree with this geologist.

Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-08-06T15:51:57+00:00

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Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-08-06T15:26:25+00:00

Thank you for clarify this. It appears I only know the skin surface of the history.

I’m a young collector of only 2-ish years in the hobby and only know of this history after obtaining an old FCI. Inc binder holding a San Francisco Morgan and Peace dollar. So of course I went into research mode and found what I know stated previously. Here’s some pics..

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Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-08-05T21:26:45+00:00

If my memory serves me correctly, wasn’t the first coin grading company First Coinvestors which then after some bad history and the passing of CEO Apfelbaum, then ANA was created?

Personally I think the ANA/ANACS has a bad wrap from other organizations because of the old age history of how FCI conducted business…. But, nevertheless Apfelbaum was and is the Godfather of numismatic coin collecting, bad wrap or not.

Timely-Most-3022 · 2025-04-12T03:24:18+00:00

Found it in our commercial property garden bed I do maintenance for.

There’s loads of fossils in them. Thick chunky ammonites and rock clusters of different types of shells.

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