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Pillar of the Community
United States
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*** Moved by Staff to a more appropriate forum. ***after dont know anymore what to do with the dateless Buffalo nickels that I find during roll searching I decided to try the vinegar and it really worked out ! check the 1919 Buffalo nickel I recovered the date after 2 weeks in vinegar ?! ps= was completely dateless as you can see by the worn out on it .     this is the result after 2 weeks so I want ask the more experienced collector if I should live much longer on vinegar ? can we get better results with more time dipped on it ? i all ready put all my dateless buffalo's on the vinegar because I ll prefer to be able to see the date then have a dateless on dont matter what !
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Valued Member
United States
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That is cool. I have not had any luck with vinegar.
Maybe I am not leaving it in there long enough...
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Valued Member
United States
302 Posts |
I use Nic A Date on my dateless buffalos. Less time consuming.
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Valued Member
United States
294 Posts |
Never tried the vinegar. I have good luck with Nic-a-Date. Quicker, too.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
3592 Posts |
The vinegar will work but takes weeks, no harm in putting it back in.Not all nickels will restore though most will.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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And vinegar doesn't give you that ugly dark blotch at the date.
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Valued Member
United States
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Does that make this a "cleaned coin"? Does this take any value away from the coin? Not that a dateless buffalo has much value?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Vinegar also changes the color of the coin to a sort of white, so I'd say it would classify this as a cleaned coin.
Off-topic here, but do any Type I's from 1913 have any value, even if they have no date and for that matter, no "Five Cents" or mintmark?
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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I would not really call it cleaned, more like "chemically restored". Value can be a bit tricky to determine but you cannot think about this treatment devaluing the coin. After all, dateless Buffalos typically sell for 5-10 cents so the floor starts out pretty low. The interest in non-mintmarked restored Buffalos is pretty low since all the Phillys are common. Restored Buffalos from the Teens and early 1920s with mintmarks can sell for 10-30% of G4 value depending on the appearance of the restoration.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You have removed metal to get the date to come back. Altered is a better description. I would describe it as "Chemically altered, date restored."
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Rest in Peace
United States
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Am I the only one who has no trouble seeing the date on the unrestored coin?
I remember going into a coin shop where he had over a dozen vf/xf scarce date Buffalos in his case. Honest to gosh, he was suckered. Bought them from a guy who nic-a-dated the entire coins instead of just the date.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I see a date on the pics with fingers...hope that wasn't a "before" shot.  My term for this type of nickel would be "pickled". |
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Pillar of the Community
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maineman the pics are all after the vinegar the coin was completely dateless before the vinegar !
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Ricardo...that is good to hear...I suppose four pictures led myself and Oblaka to believe "before and after"
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Pillar of the Community
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I've seen a lot of dealers advertising "restored all over" nickels. IMHO the sandpaper look is worse with those than the ones that have only the date restored.
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Posted 02/13/2011 12:45 pm
