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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GDJMSP, post: 103738, member: 112&quot;]Well, ya know how you can take a Buffalo nickel with no date visible, put Nic-a-Date on it and now you can see the date ? That&#039;s because the metal directly under where the date was is denser than the metal surrounding it. The Nic-a-Date eats away the softer metal and thus reveals the date.</p><p><br /></p><p>The same thing would be true here. Even if you scraped the legends completely away from the surface of the coin - they are still there down in the metal. And if you place an acid on the coin it will eat away the softer metal around the legends and the legends will be visible again - just like with Buffalo nickels. So the detail you mention would still be there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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