How To Clean A Buffalo Nickel

1. I have a corroded 1868 shield nickel with full rims that has some major corrosion going on and I think information technology would benefit from some good ole' conservation. Any advice?

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3. I have not found any method to remove corrosion from nickel that does not also damage the surface of the money. Abrasive methods piece of work, just jack upward the coin. Acid may likewise work, but again with the coin damage.

   Since corrosion actually affects the coin's surface, information technology'southward non something that can be removed, per se. It'due south an actual disruption of the structure of the surface.

4. Yeah, yous should consider practicing your coin doctoring/conservation on coins that take no numismatic value, not 1868 shield nickels....Mike

5. I don't know if information technology volition work but it should'nt harm the coin whatsoever is maybe some Acetone.

6. Do y'all have a photo of the corrosion? Is information technology greyish white, greenish, or reddish? Since the money is 75% copper and likewise nickel is very corrosion resistant, it might exist more than of a copper oxidation. If it was cached at one fourth dimension in iron rich soil, it might have the reddish color of iron oxide.

   Jim

7. How well-nigh electrolysis?
   Seems like a elementary fix upward

8. I use some sort of acid, such every bit vinegar, pickle juice, etc... Merely remember, these are acids and tin damage your coin if not washed correctly. Please PM me, if y'all would like, for more specific instructions

10. Information technology is blackness.
    Bank check out this thread (http://www.cointalk.com/forum/t37145/). Now that I am looking at it, it may not accept full rims, maybe just an effect of the corrosion only in the fields.

11. Kickoff of all your talking nearly a coin of approximately $15 or more in the worst grade. If y'all try to clean it and mess it up, your out at least $xiv.75 of that. Maybe a little less.
    Regardless, if your unhappy with the then called corrosion, start with the uncomplicated methods and safest get-go. Place in warm distilled h2o for a few days.
    If nothing, while wet rub real lightly with your fingers. Wash fingers showtime of course. If still pretty bad, endeavour a real balmy solution of baking soda and distilled water, once again, existent lightly rug with that solution and rinse with the distilled water. Some may also say Vinegar, molases, Olive Oil, tomato juice and other miscellaneous stuff in your kitchen.
    If even so no large help, so the Acetone might be something to attempt but don't forget your now purchasing something for about $5 that you may never utilise again and if no results, add $five to the loss of that coin. At present in the minus value wise. With these processes you have at least stopped those reactions for now at to the lowest degree.
    Continuing further attempts to clean off corrosion may well leave the coin with pit marks so would end up being a coin for show and tell for some child.

12. $xv?!! Okay I'm not worried anymore. I only paid $v.

13. This would be like trying to remove "carbon spots" from copper, no known fashion ( to me ) to exercise it without affecting the non affected areas. Acetone and then proper storage would foreclose any increase, and that would be my recommendation for this money.

    Jim

14. I have been around coins a long fourth dimension and accept never found an constructive way to remove corrosion without doing something to the coin. It is what it is.

16. That is nearly what is beingness asked for a G-four money at a coin evidence. Since your in Illinois, you may want to check out the many coin shows in the area. Awaiting where in Illinois you are, just outside Chicago in that location are 3 coin shows every weekend, every calendar month. 1st Sunday is Lemont, 2nd Sunday is Countryside, 3rd Sunday is Itasca. In April there is a 4 24-hour interval coin prove in Rosemont. April 23rd to the 26th. Crowne Plaza Hotel.
    If you lot go to any of them, take that coin with you lot and compare ones similar.

17. I just went to the 1 in Itasca. Sunday I am going to Lemont so we'll come across.

18. I'd meet you lot at the Lemont one but I really don't like that i to much. Withal, my favorite coin book seller is there and he promised to get me a certain book so I even so might go. You buy the java.:eat: I was at the Itasca bear witness for several hours on the 15th. Did you lot notice it was about double the normal size for that show? That second room was a real surprize.
    If yous become to any of those shows, stop and talk to a guy that is commonly in the middle and has several tables. Proper name of Robert Griffitts. I of the best dealers at those shows. Show him your coin and enquire him about it.

19. The 15th was my beginning fourth dimension at the evidence. I idea it was a expert testify, but size-wise I actually had aught to compare it to. I will attempt to discover that dealer, Griffiths. What exactly do you mean past "centre"? Like when you lot walk in, closest to the front in the centre?

20. Ah, I know the coin book seller. Is he in the back right?

21. Not that 1, the one that was in the aisle at the Itasca show. He sells books, plastic rolls, albums, etc.
    As to Robert Griffiths, he is ordinarily in the Eye of all those shows. Ordinarily has well-nigh iii or 4 tables total of coins. about three tables full of glass enclosed coins and a table with iii ringed binders total of coins. At the Itasca bear witness he had a few of his kids with him and the youngest daughter was selling Girl Spotter cookies. I bought two boxes of those and ate one on the way abode and that is only about 10 miles. If you go to the Countryside bear witness a little more than difficult to find him since sometimes about 100 dealers there.

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