Hello everybody, I have now officially started my "Nic-A-Date Buffalo Collection". With all the talk about this topic over the past few months I decided to get involved. I ordered a Whitman folder and a bottle of of the date restorer and both arrived today. I attacked my dateless buffalo stash and here are today's finds: 1913 raised x2 (checked for mint marks) 1913 plain x2 1914 x2 1914-S 1915-D 1916-S 1918 x2 1919-S 1920-D 1923 x2 1925 1926 1927-D 1929 1929-D And one 1888 dateless V nickel I had laying around. The date came out very bold on this one. Watching the date reappear is very exciting and is almost more fun than looking throuh a pile of dated nickels! Some dates appear better than others but eventually I was able to figure out what all of them were. I have a couple dozen more dateless buffaloes to go through in the future. I will let you know what my finds are as I go through them all.
Cool idea! I use Nic a Date coins as fillers until I can get a decent coin. Maybe this what i should do with them when i replace them Richard
How about some pictures so others can see what nic-a-date does. I am curious about the coins themselves.
Round two today yielded the following: 2 indeterminate 1913 T2 1913-D T2 1915 1916 1917 1919 1920 1923 1928 x2 1929 x2
Here are some scans of today's finds. Notice the lighter spots where the acid ate away the surface of the coins. I don't know how clear the pictures are but you might be able to see the dates. Naturally, all the dates are all faint but some are clearer than others.
That's a nice collection and a unique idea. There is more to the hobby than the search for perfection.
I think it's a great idea. I know there's people who collect Poor and Fair coins for a type set. Interesting and affordable fun.
This is sooo wrong on so many levels. We all know its wrong to clean your coins so what makes it all right to use acid on them? In a few years when all of these altered coins make it to ebay, there will be some disaapointed buyers out there. ...yikes.
What does it hurt. These coins are worth what...$0.20 or so without a date on them. If you can bring the date back and build a set, it's a cheap and fun way to do it. The coin's couldn't be worth less with no date...and who knows if you Nic-a-Date a Buffalo Nickel with an S mint mark and no date, and a 1921 (or even 1926) appears, it's definitely something to celebrate. I have a whole roll of dateless nickels back home that I have been wanting to do this to and just haven't yet. I see nothing wrong with it.
I agree. Besides anyone buying should be able to tell something was used on the coin to bring out the date. I still think this is a cool idea.
cool idea That is a cool idea. Unfortunately, I've already spent all my dateless buffalo nickels. I wonder what a 1916 DDO or 18/17 with restored date would be priced... Very best regards, collect89
I went through the last of my dateless nickels this evening. Here are the finds: 1913 T1 1913 T2 x2 1914-D 1915 x2 1916 x9 1916-D 1917 x6 1917-D 1918 x4 1918-D 1918-S x2 1919 x4 1920 x2 1920-S 1921 1923 1924 1924-D 1925 x2 1917 1927-D I am particularly happy with the 1914-D since it had a lower mintage.
I've had some dateless buffalo nickels that were worn so much that the date was buried in the metal. About a year ago I bought some nik-a-date and took it home and really had a good time finally finding out what these coins were. I was stoked!!! Whenever I get a dateless nickle I'll "nik" it. If I ever get enough I will start a nik-a-dated collection. More power to ya der deister77. Bruce
Well, I'm about 12 years behind on this thread, so I doubt it's still active - but - I have a full book of Buffalo's (less the 16 d-d, 18/7-D, and 37-D tripod!). Most of the pre-20's and a lot of the 20's-31 have been nic-a-dated. I'm 68 yrs. old & in the process of liquidating my collection, so if anyone is interested in these n-a-d Buffs, let me know. And FYI, I have all 13's I&II both (incl. D & S mints), plus 14-D, 21-S, etc.
I have a full Buffalo collection. I'd say all but 10 of the coins are vinegar or nicadated. They look terrible but at the time I was a completionist
