Nickel toning

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• ChrisRx Posts: 5,619 ✭✭✭✭

  February 23, 2008 11:05AM

  Acetone wont do much. Toning is hard to remove.

  

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• BBN Posts: 3,761 ✭✭✭

  February 23, 2008 11:30AM

  I've always wondered what causes Buffalos to tone a golden color. I see it quite often in buffalos.

  
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• DubbleDee Posts: 100

  February 24, 2008 6:28AM

  Last year I opened quite a few 04, and 05 mint 2-roll boxes of nickels to make room in my safe. Just about every one of the end coins from Philadelphia had a golden tone to them, and none of the Denver rolls had it. I thought it was odd.

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• DJCoinz Posts: 3,856 ✭

  February 24, 2008 6:33AM

  Why would you want to remove it?

  aka Dan

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• ricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 24, 2008 6:34AM

  Dip, dip, dippety doo... Cheers, RickO

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• ahooka454 Posts: 3,466 ✭

  February 24, 2008 6:34AM

  I agree why clean them? If its album toning and your not a fan, sell them and get some nice white ones.

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• yellowjacket Posts: 1,809 ✭

  February 24, 2008 6:52AM

  Remember that "nickels" are made of an alloy of 75% copper and 25% nickel. The golden toning (and the spots, too) come from the copper composition.
  
  Garrow

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• BECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭

  February 24, 2008 7:13AM

  Unless it is severely unattractive I would leave them alone. You would have to use something that would strip a thin layer off of the original coin and that ruins the look of any luster is removed.

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• Shamika Posts: 18,785 ✭✭✭✭

  February 24, 2008 7:22AM

  I would guess that most people like the gold toning. I know I do.
  
  
  
  

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• leothelyon Posts: 8,476 ✭✭✭✭✭

  February 24, 2008 7:37AM

  
  
  << <i>Have a lot of nice Jeffersons that were in a Dansco album that have now toned a light brown. What can you use if anything to remove the toning? Acetone? >>
  
  
  
  You might want to remove them from the source that may be causing them to tone.
  
  
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