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Poll Question
First, you have to assume the following are true:
1. You are going to keep it for the rest of your life just because it pleases you to own it (and others like it)
2. You don't intend to sell it (ever) either for profit or out of need, and besides it's not worth much anyway
3. It will not some day finance your grandchild's college education, because it's not worth much to begin with
4. It cost you 5 cents because you found it while roll hunting
Given all that, what would you rather have: a 1943-P nickel that is
Edited by janknez
03/07/2008 12:38 pm
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I guess if I could only have one I would take the one that was nicer to look at.
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When they are that ugly, I usually sell them for silver value. In your case, a careful, diluted, quick dip might improve the eye appeal for you a bit but of course the main problem is the billon alloy and its nasty habit of turning black so the coins might do it again(billon is an alloy of silver, sometimes gold, that contains less than 50% of precious metal)
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Well....I've quite a few War Nickels and I don't think any of them are "black", but even the ones that are grimey.......I decided not to clean at all.....leavin' em' as is (at least for now) And I've never dipped or polished anything.... But, with those choices, I had to choose the "dip" but not polished.......if it's coal black...i'd have to do something about that. |
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I would opt to find a better one, but if it was the only one I could find, I would be tempted to give it a quick dip. If I knew I could find another, I would be more inclined to experiment with the dip!
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I'd prefer the dipped one.
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I would keep it dirty and throw it in a bucket with all the other worn out dirty looking silver nickels.
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I vote dimes,but War Nickel should never be cleaned! |
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I dipped 1 coin 1 time and have regretted it ever since  rggoodie
aka Richard
"catch em doing something right"
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Pillar of the Community
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Never could "follow through" with a plan to "dip"........just couldn't do it !
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I'll take the Black one. But I collect everything from Ancient, World, to US coins, so none in sight effect me. Just what they are does. mike1352 |
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Well, I bought a jar of eZest on Saturday. Haven't stuck any black nickels in it yet, but I will. I'm toying with the idea of taking photos before and after. That might be interesting.  Jan |
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eZest if you are going to use it add 10oz to 1/2oz zest 10oz water distilled & a 1/2 oz of zest it wont damage the coin plus it won't be graded as cleaned. unless it copper I have never tried it with copper this coin was done the way I just told you and PGCS graded it  Edited by amac44
04/10/2008 06:17 am
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amac44, How long was the 'dip' in Ezst solution? and I've heard vinegar works great and does not damage but sometimes it can takes days to remove black or green from silver War Nickels in the vinegar. |
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Posted 03/07/2008 1:43 pm
