Tex-A-Toy Nickel

[natepen]

I headed out to the local park again today and come up with little but found a toy nickel. The front says "Toy Money - Five Cents" and the back says "Tex-A-Toy 1954 - Toy Nickel" and has a cool looking pistol on it. The problem though is it looks like it's tarnishing right before my eyes. When I pulled it up it was easy to read and now its slowly getting hard to read. I've never seen that before. Anyone know of a way to clean it back up again. I believe it's tin. It's real light and thin.

 

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[Mackaydon]

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[Threshold]

Awesome find

 

[Minrelica]

Cool find, Nate.

You can try soaking it in some olive oil. That may give it little bit of a coating so it doesn't appear to be tarnishing.

Just a thought

 

[natepen]

I was hoping to find a way to get it looking one color again, I have a feeling that cleaning it with vinegar and salt would just eat it alive.

 

[natepen]

Cool find, Nate.

You can try soaking it in some olive oil. That may give it little bit of a coating so it doesn't appear to be tarnishing.

Just a thought

Nice avatar there WIT! That spiral bridge was right down the street from me now. That bridge was our town's claim to fame. Well, that and Gumby was created here too.

 

[Giant056]

I really enjoy finding that play money, congrats on them finds I noticed that on a play penny I found just a couple days ago, the dirt that was on it helped define the higher point in the coin before I cleaned and now you can't hardly see it.

 

[lost hunter]

cool

 

[oldsalty19]

 

[Minrelica]

Nice avatar there WIT! That spiral bridge was right down the street from me now. That bridge was our town's claim to fame. Well, that and Gumby was created here too.

Nate, Hastings is my home town so I know all about the spiral bridge tragedy. It should have been preserved for a walking, biking bridge but then again at the time nobody cared about that stuff. Now I see crews are working on another new bridge.

When I last lived in Hastings 25 years ago I could walk from my house near Pioneer Park to the corn fields just south of the ice arena with my cased shotgun and go hunting for pheasant, ride snowmobiles and 4 wheelers through town without a worry, the east end of town was called "cow town" and pretty much wooded/swampy area other than a few homes

There was no movie theater except the Riviera downtown, no Target, Walmart, Sears, Burger King, Pawn Shop. My Junior High school was kiddie-corner from Todd Field which is now a Green Mill, the outdoor pool was the place to be for a kid in the summer time and Rivertown Days was held in the park right next to it.

Things have definitely changed...

 

[hdmech71]

Cool token.