What's going on with these nickels????
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I bought a complete BU jefferson nickel set from a customer housed in a dansco album. While I was going through it, I hit the last page and asked why he put these nickels in such a pretty set....
His answer was they didnt look anything like that when he put them in there..... it's only coins on the last page so 2016 -2020. They all have some sort of this brown toning? Damage? Poo? I dont know but it's weird because it's only on this page of the album. The reverses have a little bit of it started but nothing like the obverse. He told me he took them out of mint sets the year they were made just as all the nickels from 89 and up. Coins 88 and down to 1938 were purchased through different methods over the years and none of them show any of this brown stuff.... so anyone have a guess of what's going on here....
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Obviously the surface of the nickels came into contact with droplets of.....they aint BU no mo. Peace Roy
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Some kind of liquid droplets. Maybe a wet sneeze that was allowed to dry?
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Yep.... handling or environmental contamination... sneeze, cough, laid on contaminated surface .... Cheers, RickO
The 2020 is even effected, wow! Not even that old? Obviously it has to be some sort of liquid? Maybe rain water or the dampness of a humid filled basement? What a mystery. Are they hopeless now?
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enviornmentally damaged surfaces
(not errors of any type )
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Yea I know there not coins worth anything and knew they weren't errors I just thought it was weird that it was only on that page and how they reacted so fast like the 2020s in there.
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Frankly, it could be bad cardboard. If that page has a high sulfur content....
The "droplet" pattern would not support that theory.
Well you can't really make them worse. May as well dip even if just to see what happens.
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Now they are spare change
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Looks kinda like spittle. These coins were not cared for properly.
That isn't that carronna virus I hope 😝
Maybe an attempt at artificial toning with Sulfur that went bad?
GSR ???
He stuck them all in there and then before closed the album he sneezed.
Actually, it would if the sulfur is reacting with something on the surface. Most modern coins seem to have residues from the planchet cleaning and spotting is pretty common as a toning pattern. But that still usually requires something to react with the residue which a non-archival page would provide.
Unless your theory is that the previous owner sneezed on every coin on that page over a period of 5 to 10 years.
LOL. Maybe. But that was one hell of a corrosive sneeze since the new coin is already spotted.
Well I just washed my hands just to be safe, dont want any snot on my fingers
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