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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 2657110, member: 27832&quot;]<a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/psa-vinegar-dating-is-the-best.282307/page-4#post-2517017" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/psa-vinegar-dating-is-the-best.282307/page-4#post-2517017">Here we are</a>. (Thread topic was &quot;PSA: Vinegar dating is the best&quot;, talking about nickels, but it veered into discussion of silver date restoration.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I have no doubt that something was applied to the coins in the pictures. I&#039;m also pretty confident that the photos show an actual faint date (I don&#039;t think the date was Photoshopped in). What I&#039;m <i>not</i> sure about is whether the date was completely illegible before treatment -- in other words, I don&#039;t know that the treatment actually restored the date.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not saying that the poster, or others who &quot;remember&quot; using a silver date-restorer, are lying. I&#039;m just saying that <i>this isn&#039;t the sort of technique that would be lost</i>, and if it were possible to do this, I&#039;d expect to see a <i>lot</i> of restored-date keys in this series. Whatever &quot;Nic-A-Silver&quot; <i>was</i>, I wonder if it actually accomplished anything more than removing distracting coloration or deposits from a still-barely-legible raised date.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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