1913 D type ll buffalo street found coin...a work in progress

This specimen was actully found by me in a street inbedded in tar! As you can see its a key buffalo date and mint.
Its been years of soaking ,treating with verdicare ,rest,soak again. I cannot tell you how surprised I was to discover it was a type ll D . Now we all know the its a cleaned coin , and value has diminished due to environmental issues but ,I am pretty happy with the progress over the years....

 

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I love it. Certainly a cool story to go along with. Those with their own 'pedigree' like this are among my favorites as I can always keep the stories straight and reminisce, haha.

 

Now that has an incredible cool factor!! It's amazing you found that coin where you did. I'd like Paul Harvey to tell me the REST OF THE STORY...

 

That is an amazing find... Now if I could be so lucky

 

Nice. Too bad it wasn't the S, which is worth more. It also appears to be a "woodie."

 

You cannot believe how it looked when I found her....i knew it was a 13 what type wasn't visible at that time.
Yeah the street nickel story.....or key in the tar-pit.

 

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And it's not a 38 D ! But frozen in ice cube and thawed, soaked in acetone, rub between fingers with verdi care. And aged until the next treatment....each one does improve it.

 

Grumpy old Man !!

 

By the rest of the story, I'd love to know how it got there. Was it on a busy street, a neighborhood street? How long was it there? How did you happen to notice it? You know... the details.

 

What is the point of that?

 

He's our resident TROLL ! And his post has been reported.

 

College days ,in Annapolis , one of my buddies and I were carring in some party goods lol.
Bill and his dad were coin collectors, I sat a case of beer down ,and saw it when I went to carry it in the fleet reserve club. LoL our dates / girl friends couldn't get over us digging up an old nickel.
Then it sat in my car god only knows how long.....most probably went on a few road trips too.

 

The best part is that Nickel will be with you, probably for the rest of your life. Kinda like finding a lost puppy and feeding it. LOL Too much sentimental feelings around it now to get rid of it.

 

I had a dealer offer me $50 for it...he was like show me another well in good its a $150.coin. no not for sale its one of those things from another place and time.
But that tar is still stuck pretty good..... Guessing goo gone wouldn't hurt lol.... have no idea how long it had been in the tar. ....or someone put it there.
I did work in a store one time that had a mercury dime in the cement floor .....carpenters in Baltimore were known for hiding coins under moldings working on a house.

 

Goo gone will not hurt this coin.

 

Hey this may end up at the Smithsonian institution

 

At the least it should deserve this........

 

All I can say is where is Ed Wood when we need him? Now as trolls go... Ed had class..... the only issues Ed had.....was his Coin Grading Home Office didn't have a bathroom. Or a safe....vault....
But his jet was sitting on the run way waiting to whisp him away to Aruba.