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New Member
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I inherited some coins and have no clue why the dates would be rubbed off or actually buffed off the coins.  Would anyone know why? |
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Moderator
 United States
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are you sure they were buffed off? Some coins had the dates that stood above the background and were first things worn away. Buffalo nickels are a good example. What type coins are you talking about  |
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New Member
 United States
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These are Buffalo nickels, but these were taken off...they didn't just rub off, very weird. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not that we don't believe you, but this is strange enough for us to want to see. Can you show pictures?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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People have been doing odd things with coins for a long, long time. |
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New Member
United States
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I will post a pic, let me figure out how lol
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United States
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New Member
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New Member
United States
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12 of them are like this, rubbed off. The rest, like was said earlier, they look like it naturally happened, but 12 of them you can tell someone did it on purpose.
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Moderator
United States
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can you make the pictures larger? cropping the image to just the coin will help.
Its hard to see, but almost looks like someone used nic-a-date on it.
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New Member
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I have 2 guesses. 1, they were planning on using the coins to make hobo nickels. 2, they wanted to carve something else in that space such as initials to make it a love token.
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Valued Member
United States
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I'm reading this on my phone so the pics are really small, but it looks to me like someone put a drop of date restorer on a dateless nickel. The product goes by the name Nic-a-date.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think what you are seeing is the after effect of someone using "Nic a Date" to try and restore the date on Buffalo nickels. It is a product that if used gently can bring out the image of the date on a previously dateless buffalo, however used wrong the results look like the coin you pictured. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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Date was not buffed off, it was worn off and then someone tried to restore the date using an etching compound.
The only case I can think of where dates were actually buffed off of coins was in the early 1960's when some of the casinos in Las Vegas removed the dates from silver dollars in an attempt to keep people from taking them home as souvenirs. (Silver dollars were rapidly disappearing from circulation due to their silver content and the casinos were trying to keep the ones they had in use.)
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New Member
United States
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Thank you all for your help...we were puzzled.
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Posted 12/02/2014 10:20 pm
