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Valued Member
United States
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Hey I've got about 100 Buffalo nickels where the date is worn off or mostly worn off. I've already completed most of a set with better looking coins and now I don't know what to do with the other 100+ nickels. Any suggestions? Thanks |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Lots written here about it. Search "restored".
Edited by fioti
01/27/2012 8:15 pm
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Instead of wasting time experimenting with Vinegars and other types of acids, you could give them to some kids. Pass them out on Holloween instead of candy. Donate to a charity and take a excessive large tax write off. Have a YN giveaway on this forum. Take to a flea market and sell for $0.25 each. Superglue to a RR track. Superglue to a sidewalk and stand and watch.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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You can probably find interest for those with mostly worn but identifiable dates if they're keys. Some (1921-S in particular) can be identified with no date at all. Also, you can probably find somebody who wants completely dateless ones, at least the ones with mintmarks, though you might only get like a quarter apiece for them.
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Valued Member
United States
424 Posts |
 Buy some nic-a-date, make a "restored date" collection... |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Pass them out on Holloween instead of candy. I would recommend along with rather than instead of. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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i know some of you may scold me, but I have found soaking them in muriatic acid to do quite the trick!
you can pick up a few gallons of it at home depot. for those of you unfamiliar with it, its basic pool acid you treat your chlorinated pools with. I suggest doing this outside and with proper PPE personal protective equipment, goggles, gloves, etc... I have sold a bunch of nickles this way. and people were very pleased
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Valued Member
 United States
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funny money, I was under the impression that nic-a-date wears off.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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PCB Etchant soultion works good too.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Put 'em back in circulation via coin counters or rolls if your banking establishment will take them...mine won't (as the teller points to the counting machine).
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Valued Member
United States
424 Posts |
It won't wear off, it's ferric-chloride reacting with the different compression, allowing you to see the date. I have a separate folder for restored dates, and they're all still "readable".
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Valued Member
United States
126 Posts |
i think the give them to kids idea is brilliant! hopefully you can get a more younger people involved in collecting.
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Valued Member
United States
126 Posts |
I think what I'm going to end up doing is giving some to kids and trying to restore some of the ones where the date is partially visible.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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If by "partially visible" you mean that you can actually determine what the date truly is, I would NOT tamper with it. Besides the fact that a coin with a readable, original date is generally more desirable than the same coin after it's been chemically treated, restoring dates that are still partially visible will frequently backfire on you and result in the same or WORSE uneveness between the digits which were still visible and those which were not.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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 The best candidates for date restoration, in my experience, are actually ones where the date area is worn completely smooth. Ones with fragments of the date visible do not seem to restore as well, I think because the crud and oxidation trapped in the recesses of the date area interfere. Also, the only ones worth the effort are the ones with mintmarks. Edited by CaptainFwiffo
01/31/2012 11:53 am
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Valued Member
United States
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Thanks for the advice guys. Many of the "worn dates" I had talked about are still somewhat readable. I didn't realize that although as worn as they are, they still warrant holding.
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Posted 01/27/2012 8:39 pm
