Ch3cooh And H2o2 Or Vinegar And Hydrogen Peroxide On Buffalo Nickels

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bmar Valued Member United States 123 Posts	Posted 05/03/2017 02:24 am There was a posting on here about using vinegar and hydrogen peroxide for raising the date on Buffalo nickels. I gave it a try tonight and it worked great. I had about a dozen coins and each one is now in my coin book except for one that I already had. This isn't very hard to do since my buffalo's are mostly newer and there are not many of them. One of the coins looked like it had been dug out of a paved road or some such past and it cleaned up nice. I had more trouble reading the mint mark than the date. * Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. * Report this Post to the Staff

John1 Moderator United States 56855 Posts	Posted 05/03/2017 04:41 am Any before/after pics? John1 Report this Post to the Staff
bmar Valued Member United States 123 Posts	Posted 05/03/2017 06:14 am I still haven't been able to take pictures that look very good and are not blurry. Some of the dates are fairly easy to read and others not so well. I will try and take some pictures. Report this Post to the Staff
T-BOP Rest in Peace United States 18456 Posts	Posted 05/03/2017 08:43 am I found the same problem when I used peroxide and vinegar on hundreds of dateless Buffalos I stumbled across about a year ago . Most would show 4 visible digits ,while some would only show 1 or 2 digits . and a small hand full showed nothing . Report this Post to the Staff
mcshilling Pillar of the Community Canada 9159 Posts	Posted 05/03/2017 08:53 am Yep it does work. When I did it I should have taken before and after pics but just never thought of it. Report this Post to the Staff
Benja Valued Member United States 186 Posts	Posted 05/03/2017 3:09 pm I put one in a solution and I forgot about it so when I woke up in the morning the liquid was very blue and there was blue stuff in all the ridges and scratches of the coins. It actually looked scary. After scrubbing the blue off with a toothbrush the coin was like completely white and it couldn't have looked more cleaned but I got the date and it was 1917 so that's pretty neat. Report this Post to the Staff
bmar Valued Member United States 123 Posts	Posted 05/03/2017 5:04 pm This is the best image I could get. My phone works the best, but none of the pictures showed the date. This picture shows the raised date but it can't be read at all. The date is 1916. I was very pleased that I could take a coin, which had no date at all, and come up with a date, which required a magnifying glass, legible enough to put in my coin book. Report this Post to the Staff
bmar Valued Member United States 123 Posts	Posted 05/03/2017 6:07 pm But then I need a glass for almost all of the coins I look at, especially when I am looking at the mint marks. Report this Post to the Staff
g048406 Pillar of the Community 861 Posts	Posted 05/04/2017 12:11 am Vinegar, without the Hydrogen Peroxide, will also work, it just takes alot longer to work(a couple of days). A friend of mine says that tabasco sauce works great. I've found that certain dates like 1915-s, 1921-s, 1914-d, 1924-s will fully restore, with a sharp date while 1913-s, 1913-d, 1926-s, 1915-d are very hard to get the date to show. Report this Post to the Staff
bmar Valued Member United States 123 Posts	Posted 05/04/2017 10:08 pm I am missing every one of those dates, along with many more! It is interesting how some dates restore just fine and other don't. Report this Post to the Staff
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