Some old Coin Chemicals never die

Yesterday I went to the "big city" to get some coins from a dealer to take to the local coin club's Year end dinner for sale and for prizes. While the president of the club was looking through various trays, I wandered over to the 'supplies" shelves and found these. I said "Hey, I thought you couldn't get these any more. " He said " I was cleaning up and found them in old boxes". Said they were very old stock and the old prices were on them. They are full containers , so they will go with the rest of my chemical collection and time permitting, I might play with them MS-70 and Nic-a-lene for cents toner ( which I had only seen in a magazine before. Jim

 

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Scary stuff, Mad scientist.........

 

Just the notice on the MS 70 saying "HARMFUL OR FATAL IF SWALLOWED" doesn't make me too keen to put on my coins. I have never seen Nic-A-Tone before, but I have seen Nic-A-Date. Do they still make Nic-A-Date?

 

Really, Jim? Those things are at the supplies booth of just about EVERY coin show I ever go to!

 

They absolutely do.

 

Maybe it is the states difference.

 

Is it the Rockies or the Mississippi? Either way, I am SOOOOOOOOOOO glad to be on THIS side of whatever the line is.

 

Yeah I am glad for you also

Amazon will sell it to you, but I think the price is padded for shipping. The KOH content is fairly high. The original price on the tags was 4.95 and I got a discount so I will experiment and take photos for future reference.

 

We get to have dinner BEFORE Sunday and Monday Night Football.

 

Ha! If that's the best , I can see why you are somewhat disturbed.

 

So I'll ask the dumb question because I don't know..... It says to use the Nic a tone until you reach the desired tone. Will this product take a brown cent to a red or red brown?

 

I don't use it, but my impression has always been it's for retoning artificially reddened older cents. Kind of like Deller's Darkener without the mess.

 

I've heard the old timers at the club talk about the MS70. I'm not at the point in my numismatic journey that I should be concerned about this stuff. If anyone has any before and after photos with the Nic a Tone, please post them!

 

Well, that and our states MADE the nation, rather than being a creation of it. I work for the oldest NON-PARLIAMENTARY SYSTEM (everyone faces the presiding officer, rather than benches facing the other side) legislature in the world. Our first chamber is shown on the back of the $2 note. Same body, uninterrupted. We lent them the space for the First and Second Continental Congresses. The Virginia House of Burgesses at Jamestown was parliamentary. And I work for the #2 record holder for longevity in it. #2 alone as of TODAY. He was tied for #2 yesterday. At the end of May 2019, he'll achieve #1 all time, according to the state archives. The man he'll surpass is a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Philadelphia. He lost a legislative Primary two terms ago.

 

Kurt, I am glad you like your state, and I have absolutely zero , 0, zero envy for you. Bathe in its history not, but in ones future!

 

Is the MS70 the old formula, or the new formula? (just out of curiosity)

 

I am quite sure this label is the "new" formula.

 

And I for you. If I lived where you live, I'd move. Fast. Far. I've been in, and slept overnight in, 49 of the 50 states. All but Alaska. At this point, if I could not live here, I'd likely try to move to England. I can't think of even one other U.S. state I'd choose to live in. PA doesn't tax retirement income and FL, which also does not, is too sweaty.

Besides Jim, just ask the denizens of your Bullion Investing section. We're all doomed and there is no future without a stash of PM's.

 

I second the request. What does it do and what does it look like?