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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
37 Posts |
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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Pillar of the Community
 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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Pillar of the Community
United States
652 Posts |
@ 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
1370 Posts |
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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New Member
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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Pillar of the Community
United States
613 Posts |
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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Pillar of the Community
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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