"Nick a Date" for Buffalo nickels

Nice, for you and your son!

 

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He now keeps that Dansco at his place. I'm still hunting down some better date 3-cent nickels, then he gets that (with 2-cent pieces) one too. With so much local attention given to PM's, anything not made of silver or gold is going CHEAP, CHEAP here. One exception - really nice Indian Head cents still bring it.

 

Foregive me, PM's ?

 

Precious metals.

 

Of course, thanks.

 

Yep, many if not most of my bidding colleagues here have the same mania about PM's that our Bullion Investing section regulars do here on CoinTalk. They're convinced Federal Reserve Notes are going to be toilet paper in a few months, too. WAAAY too many insomniacs listening to Cost to Coast too often. If they'd just calm down I could make a fortune fitting them for tin foil hats.

My committee today had a hearing on a bill to allow 5G co-location on existing power poles. There were a few real tin foil hatters who came in claiming that 5G will kill people. The same people are also upset about "Chemtrails" and smart meters and geoforming. Full goose bozos are in no short supply here.

 

Well sir, isn't that interesting. My last assignment for the local electric utility was building and installing high speed wifi components for the smart metering network here. They're already at 4G, I mean really what's another G. As far as I know, no one has suffered any ill effects. The "bozos" as you so lovingly characterize them are probably the same people that have a smartphone plastered to their ear for a good share of the day.

Securing these networking and keeping them that way did and still does give me cause for a bit of concern.

Bullion...I can't eat it or spend it...well I think you see where I'm headed with this..

 

One of them that came into my office was REALLY REALLY cute, and just about age appropriate for me to notice, but she was like a statue until she finally spoke. She claimed she was some kind of hypersensitive to WiFi and other radiation and that her entire body was like vibrating from the radiation. I couldn't help thinking, "Hey, you sound like the beginning of a wild weekend, Honey."

 

No, this one is almost a stones throw from the house. The dam was built to stop flooding in downtown York. Indian Rock Dam. It's usually almost empty but with all this rain, well you can see in the photo what happens. It holds water from the South Branch of Cordorus Creek. When it rains like this the flood occurs on the south and east side of the area so the north and west are protected. Cordorus Creek runs through downtown York and heads east after that big gulley on route 30.
I stay non flooded until the dam backs up like this and then I can become an island. Angus on '72 was the worst. I wasn't here but my wife was. She and her 5 brothers all left the house in a boat. They went to bed and all was fine. The next morning the water was a foot from the ceiling on the first floor.
Lake Redmond is the one you can see from the I-83 and it's full. On the other side of the lake is a road that runs in the same direction and Lake Redmond feeds that lake, Lake Williams. That lake is half full or empty depending on ones point of view. lol. It's been closed to fishing and boating for 6 weeks now.
I appreciate your concern.

 

Sounds like the Corp of Engineers are performing a delicate dance called flood control.

 

cute but stupid!

 

Almost hauntingly pretty, in that certain "way messed up in the head" sort of way. Hair and makeup, flawless, svelte figure, and very well dressed. But until she began to speak, the third to do so, I'm pretty sure she hadn't even BLINKED. Too Stepford, man.

 

And you wouldn't even have to use quarters (I know you will understand this).

I don't think you watch much TV, but in the "Better Call Saul" series, the main actor's "brother" claims to be sensitive to all EMR, until Saul secretes a cell phone in his brother's pocket during a trial.

 

The date has been rubbed off........move on.

 

That's for sure.

 

My Grandfather (Regular Army) called these guys a joke. But I'm sure they 'intend' well.......

 

Not to digress <g>, but for anyone intend on doing this, two suggestions: First, just put a drop of the stuff on the last digit (or two, if you can't determine the decade by other means) of the date. (Don't soak the whole bleepin' nickel!)

Second, as a previous poster mentioned, this is the same stuff as PCB etchant. When I was making my own boards (circa 1965), I'd first lay out my traces with a "resist pen" and then soak the copper-plated phenolic board in a bath of etchant.

It would dissolve all of the copper except for that which was under the marks I'd made, which I'd then remove (via steel wool and water, IIRC).

Since people do still make their own PCBs (not everyone can be sending a file off to some outfit that makes them -- some folks want their one-off board Right Now -- and not "for a fee" either), I don't see why it wouldn't make more sense to just buy a quart or so (or maybe a pint?) of etchant, and use that.

You could always put it into little squeeze-dropper bottles, put a nifty label on them, and sell them online to recoup your cost for the etchant, and probably make a tidy sum in addition to your initial cost.

I'm not saying that's what anyone else is doing... just that it's something you could do, if so inclined. (I don't know what etchant costs today, but it wasn't all that expensive back then -- even accounting for inflation and all that, so I doubt it'd be all that expensive now.)

 

Some of the very hard dates, can be found by this method. Some, can and have been slabbed, because of the ID's diagnostics on the coins in the series, as other series. Think of the others coins that have ID marks, or others parts that show that what it is. One coin that's not a nickle, is the 1916 quarter of Standing Liberty. By using diagnostics, you can ID that coin, and have it slabbed even if no date.

 

Horseshoes........'almost'.....

 

How much numismatic purpose does a coin with no date have?