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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Good luck on this one, SSK! It'll probably just be another 1916 DDO or 1918/7-D, but it's worth a shot.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Vinegar with bit of Peroxide. 1890 Liberty nickel. Before...  After...  Date...  |
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Pillar of the Community
 United States
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WOW!  That was an amazing improvement. I still have the slick one in some vinegar. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I thought this thread died- thank you for reviving it! I don't any more dateless buffs, but I'm still happy about that
16-D.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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This thread has been revived lots of times.
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United States
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Grabbed one of my dateless Buffs. Used mixture of half white vinegar/half hydrogen peroxide, soaked for 2 hours. Turned out to be a 1919-D. Interesting experiment.   |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Nice lamination and results! |
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 United States
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Not bad. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4963 Posts |
 and great V nickel earlier, I've never seen it done on one of those. |
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United States
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...never acid date a 13 T1, 20, 21, or 24 carnold, your advice and supporting pictorials are I've got two 3/4 filled paper grocery bags(doubled) full of Buffalos that probably contain 20% w/o dates. This tip should save me some time. |
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Australia
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Anyone tried using a polarized light source with a USB microscope?
My reasoning is based around the idea that the metal under the date numerals is less compressed that the metal in field next to the date numerals.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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...using a polarized light source with a USB microscope I entertain the polarization concept for saving boatloads of time and then drilling down using chemicals only on ones that display potential. Any pictorials of this consideration showing before and after photos along with the related equipment and setups would be appreciated. |
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Just was reading through old threads about raising dates on Buffs. Decided to try the half & half (vinegar/hydrogen peroxide). To my amazement it works very well. Had 9 unreadable, no hint of any digits other than a hint of raised upper digits on two. After soaking in mix of apple cider vinegar(all on hand) overnight, solution actually turned clear then blue/green showing it was working. After @ 12-15 hours pulled 7 out with quite visible dates. I'd post pics but laptop screen died a few days ago, so here's a list. 1914S, 2-1915P, 1916P, 1919S, 1920P, and 1935D. Was able to ID 1920 by previous discussions (pix), but, gave it a try anyway. The 1935 was stained BLACK and PMD, it turned dark red and was able to wipe off, now is clean, little darkish, but a very readable Buffalo. Last two still soaking, very worn/damaged in date area, may not be able to coax anymore out, barely 2 digits seen now. Oh well, were trash coins anyway. Others fill a couple oh holes!  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Child, don't you have a way of dating silver coins? I may be remembering wrong. I have a Seated Liberty quarter with an O mintmark, and it looks like the O is in the same position of an 1852....so I want to see if it is one. Edited by coinlover1899
01/16/2017 7:18 pm
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Canada
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If you have a round ceramic bowl 2" dia. fill to 1/2" how many .05 would you put in it?
You can get 12 in to the top of the 50/50 mix but will it work with that many?
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