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I have 5 Standing Libertys which the dates are wore off. Can the dates be figured out? If not what is a person to do with these coins.  |
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Pillar of the Community
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Nope, not a thing you can do with them. Might as well send em' to me and I can dispose of them for you ... no problemo! Actually there is a process to reveal dates and it's used alot on Buffalo nickels. Using acid I believe ... some Buff collectors here may know the process and whether it works on 90% silver. |
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I know very little about it but I think there's something called "nic-a-date" that is supposed to help with this. Can anyone help me out here?
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Bedrock of the Community
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nic-a-date is what you use on Buffalo nickels but I would not use it just to find out what date a coin is in my opinion because even if its a rare date it is still going to have altered surfaces. Now about the standing Liberty coins, there are 2 different kinds of them and if it is variety 1 you can definately tell them from variety 2 because variety 1 shows liberty's breast, variety 2 has it covered with a top because of all the controversy, 1916 and 1917 is the only variety 1's made but some 1917's are variety 2's and you can tell by the Reverse also between these dates and some experts can probably tell other ways but please don't submit your coins to nic-a-date no matter what you do |
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Put it into a box with other stuffpy silver coins.
Edited by alkoz
08/01/2007 06:57 am
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I once put a set of SLQ's together, none had dates. I just filled holes in a whitman with whatever, I was showing it to a collector friend one night and he said these are not the right dates for this. I said oh really, prove me wrong. We both got a chuckle out of it, I ended up letting them go for silver a long time ago. Was an amusing set. Now I wonder if it would fit in one of them registry sets. LOL..
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So is nic a date a service or a product? I've only ever heard it mentioned on this site and don't really know what it is. I wouldn't intentionally suggest anything to damage the coins. Why is nic a date only good for buffalos?
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arthene, nic-a-date is a product used to "raise" the date on dateless Buffalo nickels. It is an etching acid so it will damage the coin around the date area but it will make the date visible. I believe that nic-a-date is specifically formulated to work best with nickel but not silver. I would never recommend using it on Philly buffaloes since they don't have much premium in low grades or using it on a raised mound buffalo since that can only be a 1913 T1. Use at your own risk on dateless buffaloes with mintmarks. Some of the early D and S buffaloes have a significant premium even in low grades and would have a good price even with nic-a-date damage(13-D & S TII, 14-D, 15-S, and 21-S to name a few). |
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To just about everyones knowledge, once the date is off an SLQ, it is gone forever.
As stated by Bryan, 1916 and 17 were a little different (Type 1, bare breast, no stars under the eagle).
A 1917 no date is normally worth whatever silver is left in it. Some of the mintmarked pieces may bring a little extra.
A 1916 no date is a different story. There are two things that differ in the 1916 and 17 Type 1 Quarter. One of them being the hair. The 17 has a long strand of hair above the main bunch, going off Liberty's right side. Also something that I have yet to spot with down on the ankle/foot area.
As for the nic-a-date/acid date nickels, why not?
I have found a 13-S Type two and received a substantle premium over a dateless buff. Whenever I get a dateless buff, no matter the mintmark, I normally just put a drop on and see what happens. I am hoping for a 16/16 one of these days...
And to re-answer another question, nic-a-date is a product that comes in little bottles for a couple bucks each. Put a drop on, clear it off after a couple seconds and see what happens.
Jordan
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and no, nic-a-date does not work on silver. That's why it's called "nic" a date...for nickel.
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Thanks very much for clearing that up! You're all wonderful!
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I remember using a date restorer for nickels on a Standing Liberty quarter when I was a kid. It turns the silver black and does nothing to raise the date. There is really nothing to be done on a quarter that has the date worn off. Thanks, Bill |
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Posted 07/31/2007 11:49 pm
