Acid dating silver coins

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I have been trying several thing's as of late, I was able to use some of the swimming pool Chlorine test kit chemical's on a few no date buffalo nickel's and managed to get some minor results. I haven't tried it on silver yet.


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There is a product you can buy at some grocery store's for cleaning the lime and scale out of electric coffee maker's that will clean Clad and Nickel coin's like new without the scrubbing that will damage the coin, Just be sure to rinse it well with soap and water, Then follow that with a rinse of Isopropyl Alcohol or Acetone based nail polish remover. As for my thot's on silver, I wonder if you could place a magnet with a sheet of paper over it and place the coin on top of it, and lay another paper over the coin and sprinkle some iron powder or Filing's and see it the magnetic field passing thru the coin would give you an outline of the date and other feature's?

I do know that the coin's once struck will have a different density where the date, legend, and portrait are.

That is how some law enforcement agencie's are able to find serial number's. I do recall seeing a forensic's show on the tube, that they used superglue and some type of acid to form a residue on a object to show what the eye and the microscope couldn't Alway's try the least harmful way to clean a coin and make sure you protect yourself from exposure to any type of chemical's If you don't understand something, Google it September 8, There isn't one that I know of.

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Visit us on the web at WWW. The properties of silver don't lend itself to a nic-a-date like product as well as nickel. You can sometimes determine the date by evaluating the die variety if possible and spending some research time.


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Not aware of one. I believe you can tell the by the dot and a half bead at the head and by the drapery how far it goes down. September 8, 4: There should be a few bottles of this stuff around somewhere, but I'm sure it's very difficult to find.

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I tried this on some silver, but it didn't work. Yes, it can be done, but why?

How to restore date on silver coins

There is little numismatic value there. If it happened to be a rare one like a Standing Liberty quarter , the acid date could lower the value. Those coins can be identified by the bottom folds in Ms.

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Coin authentication is not always as simple as it might seem. What about the and 23s? People would pay up for those. Ferric chloride is the main chemical in the stuff used to pull dates off of dateless nickels.

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Should work on junk silver. They are still better than dateless coins. How does the coin feel afterwards Thanks for sharing the results off your experiment COTW. I agree briank ,since they have a little or no value,they are better than dateless coins.

what is the equivalent of nic-a-date for silver coins? — Collectors Universe

The way this works on any coin is via a metal etchant, peracetic acid can etch silver but doesn't work as fast as nitric acid does. There are metal etchant acids for every type of metal, you could technically bring back the date on a gold coin via the same method using aqua regia but thats even more dangerous than the silver etchants are.

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