1913 D Type 1 Buffalo Nickel

[chuckbordell]

Found this this afternoon. Filled a gap in my Buffalo Nickel collection! Should I try the peroxide cleaning on it?

Chuck

 

[randall61]

congrats on the old bufflao,nice find.

Randall

 

[tymcmurray]

Nice coin to find!!!
If I were you, I would clean it. Try peroxide, if that doesnt do the job,
try a bath of hot vinegar and salt, but ONLY leave it in for 30 seconds
at a time until you like what you got.
Let us know how it turns out, with cleaned photos, please.

 

[jgas]

The nearly extinct Buffalo...found! Nice job. jgas

 

[unclejesse67]

Nice coin. I've been having good luck with lime away and a soft brass brush on my nickels. You can see the one I found in Missoula that I cleaned with this method in my post from yesterday "a week worth of finds".

 

[HalfSpeed]

Really nice buff!

 

[Indianhead Jones]

A sweet buffalo! Congrats on a nice find!

Larry

 

[Mr_Mojo_Risin]

That is cool. I can't wait to see the cleaned photos!

 

[treasurefiend]

Cool old coin!!!!

 

[Goes4ever]

peroxide doesn't do much on nickels use vinegar/salt, it only takes seconds!

 

[mpostma]

Nice nickle! Congratulations!!!!
Can't wait to see what salt and vinegar does to clean it up.
Very very nice find.
Mark

 

[BuckleBoy]

I think you'll want to experiment with other nickels before you try ANY method on that one...some have had good results with salt and vinegar--but you'll want to be sure to use baking soda afterwards to stop the vinegar reaction!


I'm sure there are threads in the cleaning section.


-Buckles

 

[Dirt Chaser]

Beautiful coin! Most circulated buffs used to exhibit much more wear.

 

[Goldiver]

Nice find, I like how it looks in the photo. I would leave it as is.

Steve