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Hi everyone, so I saw a thread on CCF with a link on how to restore yearless Buffalo nickels with concentrated distilled white vinegar 5% acidity and tried it Friday night. Actually I tried two experiments, on two year-less nickels. One nickel had a mintmark so I just used the vinegar. The other had no mintmark and so I added some hydrogen peroxide per a suggestion on the thread. Well I just came home (66 hours or 2.75 days later) and some of the mixed solution evaporated and left some blue spots on the coin and the solution became blue. The date however is now visible and it's a 1927 (p) so no big deal. I was going to ask what I could do to remove the blue spots but simply re-submerging the coin in the vinegar solution for a short time did the trick! The nickel with the mint mark is a century old 1915D  Hole Filler! Pretty cool experiment! |
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Yeah ,in the future make sure you have enough solution to soak your nickels if you intend to let it sit for that long. Especially if soaking a coin in acetone which evaporates very quickly.
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Turning a "worthless" dateless nickel into something that you can at least read the date and mint mark for is fun. I've never found a rarity doing it, but it's always neat to see what appears.
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Duly noted T-Bop, thank you. I thought I would be home sooner to check on my baby buffalos!
Moxking: Were you implying that the 15D is one to be considered a rarity? I see that it is a better date/mm, I'm just curious if it is your opinion that the 15D is a rarity, and if that is a common opinion. I mean to me, it's pretty rare to have a century old coin travel from the Great Divide all the way to the East Coast, and I thought it was awesome when I saw the revealed date of 1915!
Thanks for the replies guys!
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11/23/2015 3:54 pm
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I posted quite a bit in the other thread, and after doing two coins I turned up a 1920 and a 1916-D. The 16-D isn't quite as good as your 15-D, but still a better date. Nice going with that one! moxking, I see you're one post away from 1000.  |
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Nice numisma. Maybe he's saving his 1000th for a more worthy subject. That's cool on the 16D, wrong denomination though!
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Yeah, if only it was a dime.
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The other two nickels I had turned up as a 1917 and a 1913 Type I. Yea I messed up with that one. It started looking like 1913 and then I flipped it over and was like oh yea, one of these looked like a raised ground. Oops. A year-less 1913 Type I is only worth like $5-$6 bucks when it's not acid treated right?
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11/29/2015 7:52 pm
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That's better than the 5 cents I got mine for.
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Its not worth that much... BTW, why would you acid date a 1913 type 1 buff? Kind of pointless, IMHO...
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COTW nice new avatar  |
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It was an oversight COTW. Nice avatar!
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I'm sorry I was a bit off topic hehe |
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Just found a 1919-s dateless. I did this thing where I mixed hydrogen peroxide and vinegar, and then added table salt. Within seconds, I could both see the date and the mintmark. It kind of got these wierd blue spots, like Joecointois. I actually gave it an olive oil bath a couple of hours ago and with even better results already.
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COTW nice new avatar Thanks I have never encountered these "blue spots"... Perhaps it has something to do with the salt? |
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Posted 11/23/2015 2:45 pm
