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Vaquero finds, an old Nickel, but . . .

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mike5853

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So I was out at my favorite park today and found a nice collection of coins and a 14k gold chain with a ring on it. I also dug what appeared to be a very old nickel, as determined by my Vaquero, very corroded but I figured I'd clean it up and get a better idea what I had. Well after a good deal of careful cleaning all I got was a mystery. The coin is so corroded that all I can make out are two 8's, great. So is it 1888, or maybe 1881, 2, 3, 4. . . I can see by the position and style of the date it's either a Shield or Liberty Head nickel and still cool, but man I wish it was clean!



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I know it sounds odd, but soak it in Worcestershire sauce. May take several days, but it helps a lot.
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BarberBill said:
I know it sounds odd, but soak it in Worcestershire sauce. May take several days, but it helps a lot.
BB
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I think it might be too late. The surface of the coin has deteriorated and theres really not much left. I did just notice there's a star at the 8 o'clock position, you can see it in the photo as well, so this must be a Liberty or "V" Nickel.
 
Date or date, it's still a good find in my book. I bet there's plenty more old coins hiding where you found that one.

The Tesoro Vaquero will find them.:detecting:

tabman
 
tabman said:
Date or date, it's still a good find in my book. I bet there's plenty more old coins hiding where you found that one.

The Tesoro Vaquero will find them.:detecting:

tabman
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Thanks tabman. This hobby is so very cool.
 
Yeah that's a oldie mike. I know what a bummer it is to find something that's cool and have it be beaten up rusted or dented....its the life of a detectoist. But either way it's really cool!
 
:Left4Dead said:
Yeah that's a oldie mike. I know what a bummer it is to find something that's cool and have it be beaten up rusted or dented....its the life of a detectoist. But either way it's really cool!
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Thanks. These grounds date back to the 1700's and were farm land so when I think of all the fertilizers and chemicals used over the last 275 years. . . I know theres more there, but I would imagine the condition on the older coins is probably similar. But like you said, still cool.
 
My first old coin was an 1889 V-nickel. It looked just like yours. It seems like most of the old V's I've seen have been in pretty bad shape. Cool find though! Congrats.
 
v nickel. looks inda similar to the old coins i find....not much detail remains.
 
Has anyone found a better method besides a firm thumb rub to bring out details in heavily corroded pennies and nickels?
Everything else I've tried just reduces any remaining details.
Sure would be nice to extract the dates from these mystery coins, ey Mike?
 
POLEWAGGER said:
Has anyone found a better method besides a firm thumb rub to bring out details in heavily corroded pennies and nickels?
Everything else I've tried just reduces any remaining details.
Sure would be nice to extract the dates from these mystery coins, ey Mike?
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Sure would be. The best method I found is to let the coin sit in soapy water for a couple hours, then go over them with a soft toothbrush. Let them soak again for another hour, and go over them again with the toothbrush. To bring out more detail I coat them with a little olive oil. Fortunately the above coin had a couple "8's" and one lone star at the 8 o'clock position.
 
Hi Mike I need your help, I dont have any means of doing youtube stuff so I cant demonstrate this for others maybe you can do it for me.I have a vaquero and as you will be aware sometimes the coil cover is difficult to remove. I did it the following way. I had two wooden ice cream sticks, I felt for a place in the cover where I could get some leveridge, when I was able to find a small area where I could insert one of the sticks I did just that then inserted the other one and gently worked it around the coil until the cover popped off, total time about 60 seconds, I have seen a demo on youtube which horrified me in the way in which the demonstrater treated the cover I was sure he was going to break it he was so rough with it, I hope that you can do this for the tesoro forum. Thanks. oneill
 
Hi Oneill
I will try it but I'm not one for using tools for something like that. Here is a link to a cover removal issue someone posted in this forum. You can place your suggeston there as well.

http://www.findmall.com/read.php?17,1565571

Thanks
Mike
 
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