reading a date of a coin that has no date

marion moore

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Feb 23, 2015
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Greenville, South Carolina
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I'll try to keep this short, back in 1975 I worked in engineering, we use pencils to do dwgs before computers

with autocad. if went drew a part and needed another part almost like it we would run a copy of it using sepia

paper, we then could change the part to make it a new part, with out redrawing the whole part. we had to use

a two part liquid that came in two different glass bottles with eye droppers. we would use a q-tip with part #1

which would remove the lines you didn't need. then use part #2 to neutralize it. one day I had a buffalo nickel

with no date, so for what ever reason I put some of part #1 on it and the date appeared, just real faint, but

could read it. then I wiped it off and it was gone. I can not remember the name of the liquid, it been to long ago, but

if you have any use for it I'm sure you find what it was on the internet. I did use it on other coins and it worked most

of the time. best I remember it would clean a penny real good. thanks for reading, marion
 

Interesting years, for sure! However, many more people took pride in the work they did!
 

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