Acid Dates In Buffalo Nickels

I know they are not valued as much. Look for them on eBay SOLD auctions.

Treat them as DETAILS coins.
Probably worth well under 50% of catalog for the grade.
And since the date had been worn off (cull) that's not much.

There's a dealer in California that specializes in Buffalo nickels . He offers some acid treated keys and semi-keys at fairly high prices .

I never want any of those.

Yeah, one of the few acid treated indian buffs I have turns out to be a decent condition 1914-D that if the whole coin were not acid treated, it should grade around an XF or so. I awhileback found it in a dealers nickel bin all for one dollar. Needless to say, I was excited about that since it was a better date. I have come a long way since then in my collecting.

We had a member here that was really good at doing the whole coin. He created a solution that left them not looking so bad. Can't remember his handle though.

Several years ago I bought most of a large collection from an estate. Among other things I didn't buy were 2 Liberty Coin albums of acid dated Buffalo nickels. Truth is I opened the folders, saw the acid dates, & told the people running the sale that I wasn't interested due to that. They priced the albums fairly cheaply & a non-collector bought them the first day of the sale. I saw him at another sale a couple months later. I don't know how much he really profited because estate sale buyers tend to stretch the truth as bad as fisherman but even going with a conservative interpretation he made a couple thousand dollars selling on eBay.