dateless buffalos and vinegar

[snappy]

dateless buffalo's and vinegar

Over the past year I got a few dateless buffalo nickels read that soaking them in vinegar will bring out the dates... it does. These were totally dateless and It took several weeks of soaking.

I got excited when I saw the 1914 and could start to make out a mint mark I was hopping for a D but 4 days later I could see it was an S The other 1914 did not yield up any mint mark.. still not bad I will keep them.

1914
1914- S
1916
1919
1923

I also put a dateless SLQ in there still no change on it I will keep soaking for another month or so Then I will give up on it if no changes.

 

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[Shake-N-Bake]

Re: dateless buffalo's and vinegar

Great information, and thank you for sharing with us. Is there anyway to see some pictures.

Thanks,
Jason

 

[65gt350]

Re: dateless buffalo's and vinegar

Jason,

I did the same thing when I saw the post about the vinegar. Here are some images.

65GT350

 

[BBcardsRI]

Re: dateless buffalo's and vinegar

Any before and afters with the vinegar soaking?

Curious to see the change in color.

~Dave

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

Re: dateless buffalo's and vinegar

I also put a dateless SLQ in there still no change on it I will keep soaking for another month or so Then I will give up on it if no changes.

You might as well remove the quarter from the vinegar. Silver does not react like nickel does. As far as I know of, there is no way to restore the date on a dateless silver coin.

 

[BBcardsRI]

Re: dateless buffalo's and vinegar

Which explains why nic-a-date doesn't work on silver coins.

~Dave

 

[golden silver]

Re: dateless buffalo's and vinegar

There is a way to lift dates from worn silver coins. I have read about it but unfortunately don't remember what the article said. I do have a walking liberty half that somone took another coin against. It left scraping marks of course but the date became visible. I think there is a safer method that has to do with special lighting but like I said I can't remember the details.

-golden silver