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Maybe one of you can help ID this metal I dug today.

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Dirt slinger

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So I went back to the old farm house where I found the 1945 silver quarter a week or 2 ago and I dug this thing. It was about 5" deep and it was giving me a real good tone in the quarter to 1 dollar range up in the silver scale, so heck yeah I'm gonna dig it. Obviously is wasnt either of those, and its not silver and wouldnt stick to the magnet on my digger. Its heavy like lead, and with a bit of effort I can bend it like lead, but when I scan a known to be lead piece its different than this. It looks like it MAY have had a silver plate on it at one time, something silverish anyway, but I'm stumped. Any ideas/guesses? :shrug: Every other coin I've dug there beside the silver 25 has been in the 1970's, nickles, dimes. pennys and quarters, about 10 all together.
Thanks.
Ken.
 
I'm guessing it is bronze if that is what you are asking.
Looks like it has some age to it also.. neat find!!!
 
Yes, thats what I meant. I wondered about bronze or maybe brass, but, just curious thanks.
Ken.
 
Probably the reason for the high reading was due to the size of the target.
Bronze would normally read lower than silver.
 
I wonder if it could be a plated casting made of bismuth. Bismuth is heavy like lead and has a very low melting point, but seems to be about as hard as silver and reads like a quarter on most detectors. Most U.S. made bismuth comes from processed lead and copper ore.
 
One last note on bismuth, not only can it be used as an alloy with other metals, but when it starts to oxidize it forms a silver/white coating on its surface which might explain the silver plating appearance of your find. Every piece of bismuth I have ever found had that silver/white oxidation on its surface and all were found around old farms where castings were made from it for use as axle bearings for wagons and so forth.
 
Mtnmn said:
One last note on bismuth, not only can it be used as an alloy with other metals, but when it starts to oxidize it forms a silver/white coating on its surface which might explain the silver plating appearance of your find. Every piece of bismuth I have ever found had that silver/white oxidation on its surface and all were found around old farms where castings were made from it for use as axle bearings for wagons and so forth.
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Thats interesting stuff, thanks for the education. I'd never heard of bismuth before. :thumbup:
 
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