Is The Restored Date The Real Date?

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philney Valued Member United States 231 Posts	Posted 01/24/2008 9:15 pm Is the restored date on a Buffalo nickel the original date? What I mean is, can I take any no date Buffalo nickel and make it a 1913, or does the acid really bring back the original date? Report this Post to the Staff

bmanofnbc Pillar of the Community United States 1424 Posts	Posted 01/24/2008 9:43 pm it brings back the real date as long as the coin wasn't too worn down. Report this Post to the Staff
mycrob Pillar of the Community United States 2602 Posts	Posted 01/25/2008 2:57 pm The restored date is the real date Report this Post to the Staff
Sap Moderator Australia 16808 Posts	Posted 01/25/2008 9:04 pm While it would technically be possible to tool a fake date onto a coin, and then splash a bit of nic-a-date around to make it look like a genuine restored date, the results would probably not fool too many people. An experienced date-tooler would be more likely to attempt to re-tone the tooled area back to natural. Using the acid itself to tool a new date would require some pretty sophisticated gear, I imagine. You'd have to apply the acid everywhere except on the exact spots where you wanted the date numerals to appear. Either way, if you've got the skill and equipment to make a realistic fake restored date nickel, you'd probably use that skill and equipment on much more lucrative targets. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
DJP7x0s New Member United States 22 Posts	Posted 01/27/2008 02:02 am Im not positive of how the acid restores the date, but as far as I know, the acid eats into the metal and follows the flow in the metal. When a coin is struck, the metal "flows" towards the edges and into the devices. So in this case, the date would have flow lines where the metal flowed into recess of the die, where the date was engraved. So the acid simply follows the flow. Report this Post to the Staff
coinzzzzzzzz New Member 42 Posts	Posted 01/28/2008 9:45 pm The ddate is raised on the coin. The acid removes the metal around the date bringing up the date. It is the real date of the coin Report this Post to the Staff
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