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Valued Member
United States
442 Posts |
OK folks, I've got a few scans of an 1889 Liberty nickel. Your mission. What's wrong with this coin.   Don't say it's counterfeit as a guess because it IS real. |
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Moderator
 United States
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clembo, is this a contest  John1  |
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Moderator
United States
23731 Posts |
Other than the damage, I'd say a weak strike. Have you checked the weight?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2224 Posts |
Looks to be acid restored.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
 it really does have that etched look of a restored date Buffalo |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
1291 Posts |
It's definitely restored. Too bad it's a common date. Of course, you wouldn't know that before beginning the restoration. (I recently got lucky and restored an 1886...woo-hoo!)   Edited by weerdsteev
10/28/2009 1:06 pm
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Valued Member
 United States
442 Posts |
Exactly folks. It was BARELY distinguishable as a V nickel so I acid dated the date only. Was surprised how strong it came out. Then I soaked it in vinegar for 3 days to even out the color. Then I just said the heck with it and Nic-A-Dated both sides. I should have taken before and after pictures but I'll find another test subject at work. Actually this IS an 1886 it's just that the 6 is inverted.  |
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Valued Member
United States
439 Posts |
Ah, the rare inverted six liberty nick. I bet that line would sell it on ebay. *snicker* |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
20753 Posts |
As I usually pop in on toned coins for AT versus NT, I too have done some tinkering with messed up coins. You may want to try my final stage with your V nickel. That is to place it on a kitchen window sill. Usually facing South if possilbe. Leave window shut too. Now pending on how much cooking and the type of cooking in that room, that coin may well start to take on a normal appearance that most would not think of as a restored coin. Keep up the experimenting. You many well find a million dollar coin. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3294 Posts |
My kitchen has no windows :(
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12437 Posts |
A kraft paper envelope works better than a kitchen window sill  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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My kitchen has no windows :(
 It is not the window that is important for this. It's the fact that in a kitchen there are lot of gasses of all different types. Many of these effect coins as well as everything else. You could leave a coin on a table, sink, shelf, etc. since its' really the substances in the air that does the trick. It takes a while pending on how much and what is being cooked or baked but it does work and it does make coins appear normal or at least more so than they were. I presently have many of them on a window sill now after some really long bouts of cleaning. |
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Actually, the best thing to do is wrap it in a kleenex moistened with the spit of a pregnant woman, and bury it in the ground exactly six inches deep (no more, no less) on the night of a harvest moon at exactly 11:26 p.m. while wearing around your neck the left back foot of a black rabbit and humming to yourself the full seventeen minutes of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida while you cover in the hole, remembering at the end to flatten the soil with an army surplus entrenching tool while repeating out loud three times "Make it look old again. It shall look old again!" and marking the site with three horse chestnuts. After a month passes, you dig it up again during the next month's full moon, and again at night, and it'll look just like a circulated coin when you look at it by moonlight. Guaranteed! Really! |
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United States
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Actually, the best thing to do is wrap it in a kleenex moistened with the spit of a pregnant woman, and bury it in the ground exactly six inches deep (no more, no less) on the night of a harvest moon at exactly 11:26 p.m. while wearing around your neck the left back foot of a black rabbit and humming to yourself the full seventeen minutes of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida while you cover in the hole, remembering at the end to flatten the soil with an army surplus entrenching tool while repeating out loud three times "Make it look old again. It shall look old again!" and marking the site with three horse chestnuts.
After a month passes, you dig it up again during the next month's full moon, and again at night, and it'll look just like a circulated coin when you look at it by moonlight.
Guaranteed! Really!
Like no one knows that? Did you know if you change the song the results change? I buried a Morgan dollar one time while humming Autobahn and ended up with a rare Thaler. On another occasion I did the same with an Indian cent while humming Humble Pie's version of I Don't Need No Doctor and ended up with rancid fish and chips. Lesson is be careful with the voodoo you do. |
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Rest in Peace
United States
1729 Posts |
You do voodoo? Voodoo who? How about renters who can't seem to come up with rent money but let their dog go all over my yard. Voodoo poo-poo?
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United States
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Hey, at least the dog is "making a deposit!"
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Posted 10/28/2009 08:56 am
