"Nick a Date" for Buffalo nickels

Exact same amount.

 

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Woohoo! Yet another York, PA auction list in the mail pile. This one is August 25. If you’d like to get on the mail list, drop a note to:

JMI Coin
PO Box 459
Stewartstown, PA 17363
(717) 993-2588 Mike
Jmicoin@verizon.net

They do take absentee bids, they list accurate grades, and they are fanatical about auction ethics. Running afoul of them in Pennsylvania is a serious hit. They never “shill bid”. They like life outside of jail.

SERIOUS quality material on this list. Almost all U.S.

 

A nickel with no date is worth how much?

 

They used to be all the rage on kids' belts.

 

A coin store I visited in Arizona sells 1000 coin bag lot for $280-300 , great American has same listed at $280+ shp/tax . The Az store sells mainly overcounter to native American artists for tourista trade. So abt. 30 cents in quantity.

 

The design...Bust halves and dollars are still beautiful coins when practically smooth.

 

I know a dealer in the antique business that sells dateless Buffalos for $.50 each on a regular basis to a man that uses them to make jewelry. I wonder how many tough dates are around someones neck or wrist.

 

I use a 10 to one vinegar peroxide solution , works well to restore the date. often a bonus of most to full horn. 24 hours in the solution, most likely if no date comes out your not going to get it, you may try another 24 hours . For that pasty white look use a dab of tooth paste and a soft tooth brush , care full of the date. Call it what you will , I call it preserving a coin. Having done this any many times I have over a 90% success rate. Understand what you are doing working with a metal alloy .750 copper .250 nickel. in the short term the solution will not attack the copper but remove micro layers of the nickel. thus if there is enough copper in the date you will retrieve it. don't try to enhance it after you have the date. You will lose it forever! because I do so much of this as a hobby , past time , I'll soak the coin in a cheap acetone ( finger nail polish remover) works better if you do this one step first because it allows tour 10 to 1 solution to work on the coin not the years of acuminated filth all old circulated coins have. just a foot note.. that filth on those coins over the years eats away at the coin.. so much for the die hard purest don't clean the coin thing. Just don't use an abrasive that will alter the coins. there it is my 2 cents worth!

 

You are not preserving the coin when you use vinegar and peroxide.
The coin is now acid etched.
Toothpaste also has an abrasive in it. That's why it appears to clean coins.

 

Every brand of toothpaste has a gritty feel to it. I'd never use anything that feels gritty on my coins.

 

Also, when using Acetone don't use nailpolish remover or any of the majority of "pure" Acetone which, when you read the label, you will discover has various additives (frequently if not always unnamed, IIRC), which are used as skin softeners and so forth.

It took a lot of searching but I finally did find some "Industrial Grade" Acetone on Amazon. Was more expensive than the consumer grade but worth the cost considering the purpose.

And the difference is more than imaginary. I did a test -- one against the other. The actually pure (with CAS number on the label) evaporated from the surface of the coin much more rapidly, and the fingernail grade left a greasy deposit on the surface, with a bit of "rainbow" reflection.

So, I only use truly pure Acetone, and same with Xylene. Other than that, the only other stuff I will are soapy water -- and, the final contestant, "VERDI-CARE," used for "lost cause" cases.