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Valued Member
United States
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I have looked around and so far, I haven't seen a clear answer. What I'm wondering is this: is a coin without a date worth more than that same coin which has been acid dated?
I guess I have two questions. How would you know the value without its date?
All replies welcomed!
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Rest in Peace
United States
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The only Buffalo I can think of is the 1913 -D ty.2 ,that should have a value even without the date showing .
Not much for SLQ .The 1916-P can very easily be a 1917 -P .
Unless your a diagnostics guy which I am not .
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Not a bad question at all! Dateless buffaloes were generally pulled from circulation in the 50s and 60s, before the mint could melt them down. They are readily available in bulk, and the going rate is about 25 cents per coin with volume discounts. AN acid-dated Buffalo nickel is damaged and will be less than an intact one. If the nickel turns out to be common, you turned it from a 25 cent coin into a 10 cent one. If it is a scarcer date, it could be worth a few dollars. Also important to note that this will ONLY work on copper-nickel coins. You cannot salvage the date on a silver coin. |
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Norway
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I do believe that acid tampered coins generally have less value than 'raw' coins, as acid leaves quite visible marks. A few exceptions of course exists here. Think of a key date 1918/7 D Buffalo nickel, for example: if the acid reveals this, you will increase the value of your coin. Otherwise it will generally decrease, I believe. And to answer your second question: you won't be 100% certain. |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I would have no use for a coin without a date.
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 Australia
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As a general rule, speaking as an Ancients collector where the problem is much more frequently encountered, an identifiable coin is more desirable, and therefore more valuable than an unidentifiable coin. So on that basis, an acid-dated coin should be worth more than a dateless coin, since the acid-dated coin can at least be identified by date. Judging from some previous posters, however, it seems that this is not the case for Buffalo nickels. I would judge this to be an example of the market price for dateless Buffaloes being too high, rather than being an exception to this rule. A dateless Buffalo "should" be worth five cents. 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
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 United States
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Thank you all for your replies! If it is a silver coins, do you just not know?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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A dateless Standing Liberty quarter (or others, but the SLQ design led to excessive wear on the date) is a junk silver coin. There is an ebay irrational hype for classic US coins, but any dealer or silver collector will offer melt based on actual weight. The only dateless SLQ with value is the 1916, due to excessively low mintage. There are differences in the drapery used on this coin that was not used in 1917, so there is no need or use for trying to dissolve or "cook" the date out. @Sap, you would generally be correct, but you can go on ebay and buy lots of non-treated dated Buffalo nickels for less than 50 cents per coin. Dripping nic-a-date on the coin may weakly reveal the coin to be a 1935 or a 1918, but it leaves a hideous discolored smudge. Dateless Buffalo nickels have a certain charm to them, which is why they trade above face value. |
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The only Buffalo I can think of is the 1913 -D ty.2 ,that should have a value even without the date showing . T-BOP misspoke as only Type 1 Buffalo nickels from all 3 mints can be id'd without having a date showing. No need to acid date them. |
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