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Sundays find.
- Thread starter B.RATNY
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deepseeker442
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good one .
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park pirate
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Eric in RI
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Nice V Butch! Looks like it had great detail when it was lost. Do you clean your nickels? I experimented with ketchup and baking soda and it brought the original color back, although the coins look sand blasted after cleaning.
I'll have to try that, I've never been able to get the nickels looking good. I'll just rinse the dirt off silver coins with soap and water. Some of the crusty Indian heads will get a boiling peroxide bath, works great at getting the crud off but it does darken the coin. And I won't clean any key date coins or very valuable coins, I'll leave that to the pros.
HH Butch NY
HH Butch NY
Eric in RI
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My recommendation is to try it first on a common date jefferson nickel that is very very red to get an idea of how it would turn out if you decided to try it on buffalo's and V's.
First, i take some ketchup and pour a nice pile of it inside a gatorade bottle cap. I then take the nickel and submerge it inside the ketchup. It takes a bit of trial and error to get the exact timing down perfect, so periodically check it, I'd say every 30 minutes. Rinse off with water and rub some baking soda on both sides of the coin and gently rub it in and then rinse again. I've been told the baking soda stops the reaction of the acid from eating away at the nickel. After a few attempts the nickel will look like the color of a nickel. Although the luster wont be there, at least its better than red ugly nickels in our albums
I will try a few myself this weekend and take some before and after pictures. I haven't done the process in a long time, but I know it works. I first experimented it on a bent no-date buffalo nickel that had no real value.
Also, a good way to tell if its been in the ketchup long enough is if you remove it from the ketchup and notice a green / brown residue left in the ketchup, then its ready to be rinsed and apply the baking soda, and then rinse again. HH
First, i take some ketchup and pour a nice pile of it inside a gatorade bottle cap. I then take the nickel and submerge it inside the ketchup. It takes a bit of trial and error to get the exact timing down perfect, so periodically check it, I'd say every 30 minutes. Rinse off with water and rub some baking soda on both sides of the coin and gently rub it in and then rinse again. I've been told the baking soda stops the reaction of the acid from eating away at the nickel. After a few attempts the nickel will look like the color of a nickel. Although the luster wont be there, at least its better than red ugly nickels in our albums
I will try a few myself this weekend and take some before and after pictures. I haven't done the process in a long time, but I know it works. I first experimented it on a bent no-date buffalo nickel that had no real value.Also, a good way to tell if its been in the ketchup long enough is if you remove it from the ketchup and notice a green / brown residue left in the ketchup, then its ready to be rinsed and apply the baking soda, and then rinse again. HH
Big Boys Hobbies
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I love those V's!