1865 3 cent nickel

Vet

Picked this up yesterday, what do you think? Acetone bath

my3cents

details are nice - looks VF20+

NO luster at all, dull - what's up with that?

Vet

Scan doesn't show the true lusteron the coin I tryed different res. this was the best I got, a dark backround looks worse. The tinge of green I don't see on the coin just the scan.

wam98

Vet, your three cent piece is a lot cleaner than mine. Don't like the idea of a bath. Maybe someone can post one that's been dipped so we can see what it might look like.

Vet

So what could be used to clean the corrision out of the O in OF.any ideas

wam98

I'm not sure how acetone reacts to nickel. I was going to try a toothpick on mine someday to see if it was crud or corrosion which I'm sure some is corrosion probably from the crud.

Barry

Looks like PVC. I'd acetone it. Acetone has no detrimental effect on the metal.

Vet

Thanks Barry I think I will give that a try can't hurt much its just a hole filler for my type set right now.

airplanenut

<< <i>NO luster at all, dull - what's up with that? >>

Granted the dullness is from the scan, but VF coins by definition basically don't have lustre. EF-40 might have a trace left.

Vet

Your right Jeremy saying that it still had luster was a bad choice of words. I think the coin is VF I used the word luster to say that it wasn't as dull and flat as the scan shows.