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Pillar of the Community
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Nic-a-Date is available at some coin shops and you can order it online. PCB Etchant is used for making PCBs. If you go into Radio Shack and ask for it, they should have it. They're basically the same stuff but the etchant is a lot cheaper by volume.
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Valued Member
United States
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Cool! So you would recomend PCB?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
613 Posts |
I love a challenge like this. It's a great way to have fun with the hobby.
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New Member
United States
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Cool! So you would recomend PCB? I agree with CaptainFwiffo with he caveat that you can leave the nickels in the solution too long. I will try and post some pictures when I get it figured out here. It is fun and a bit of adventure to reclaim lost dates and mint marks from the Buffalo nickel. :) |
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Valued Member
United States
419 Posts |
Ok... I got PCB, used it, it is AWESOME! It makes the WHOLE coin look great!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
620 Posts |
I have a intercept shield Buffalo album completed less 2 coins. You will never finish this set at 34 cents per coin. Try and buy a 1913 type 2 D or S for even 50 bucks cant be done. Unless you buy acid date restored coins. I dont buy those. Good luck you are gonna need it. I have roll searched maybe 200 rolls of nickles never found one Buffalo nickle not one! |
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Russian Federation
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Unless you buy acid date restored coins. I dont buy those. I think that's kind of the point of this challenge  I envy you anyway. My only (and I mean only) buffalo is a partial date 1927-D I bought for just under $1 from a dealer who thought it was dateless... |
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United States
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@Captain Morgan: You should read the rest of the thread. I've completed the challenge well under budget.
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United States
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@ Captain Morgan - this isn't a thread about roll searching. It's about acid dating dateless Buffaloes - totally different than roll searching, and a low cost way to fill an album. Some of the key date, acid dated Buffaloes, can still bring a hefty premium. A lot of acid dating is the fun of revealing the dates, even knowing that they'll never be worth the coins with good dates showing. I'm using it to fill in a lot of empty spots in an album I started with coins that I pulled from circulation over 50 years ago. For me it's a lot of fun!
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Valued Member
United States
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I got a 1913 T1 S from a dateless! It can be done!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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And time for me to get in on this....just picked up $14.15 face for $20 bucks.....now off to radio shack  |
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United States
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Here are the final results from my batch of dateless buffaloes
1913 s type 1
1914 s x2
1915
1915 D
1916
1916 s
1918 D
1918 s
1919 D
1919 s x2
1920
1921
1921 s
1925 s
1926 D
I also discovered that several of the vinegar soaked nickels are now no longer legible. So I will need to do the PCB treatment and report back with the results. It has been a lot of fun so far. :)
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United States
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I'm with Macwork. This thread has inspired me to try out some vinegar soaking on some dateless Buffalo's I had for the first time: got 1919, 1925, 1927 and I've got two D's still soaking. I'm curious if I'll lose the dates after a while..... regardless, I'm going to have fun filling a folder with date-recovered nickels. Also, got a latter-date Buffalo in great shape a week or so ago in change. That was quite a surprise.
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United States
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Every so often I'll take some out of the dateless rolls I've gotten and treat them with Ni c-A-Date. One roll actually had several with dates that were easily seen. This are my results so far by date. The coins with an asterisk * are ones that I needed in my "ancient" album. 5/24:1913-D * Type 2 1916-D 1916-S (2 today) 1919-S 1920-S 6/10:1918-D * 1917-S * 1924 (P) 1914 (P) * 1920 (P) 6/29:Acid Dated: 1913-P Type 2 * 1917-D * 1918-P 1921-P * 1925-D * Nice roll - these had visible dates - no acid dating needed: 1923-P 1925 * 1925-S * 1924-D * 1927-S * 1928-S better date than what I had 7/9No acid dating done - these had easily seen dates without it: 1929 1926-D * 1918-D Replaced acid dated coin 1928 * 1919 * 1923-S * 1927-D 1920 better date than what I had 7/18:1914-P 1915-P * the only one I needed 1916-D 1919-D 1919-S 1924-P 1925-D 1928-D 8/9:Acid dated 7 more this morning: 1914-P 1916-P* 1918-P 1918-P 1919-P 1925-P 1929-D* Still having fun with it!  |
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