Rain threatened....I don't care..I headed for the beach and found these:

[Magyar]

Thought it might be a "merc" when I first recovered it from the ocean floor ...until the crust came off...

1898 Barber dime...no mint mark..this is my third Barber dime in 4 yrs. of detecting. Love those Barbers!

Not sure about the surface of the obverse...maybe encrustation, but looks more like silver is chipped off the face area...

I'm afraid to clean it and ruin it....anyone have any advice on what to do about the excoriated area on the face?

thanks for looking

Lorraine

 

[General Ray]

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[Elson(La)]

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[Brandy[Ma.]]

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[Brandy[Ma.]]

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[Craig in Alabama]

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[dobbie]

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[Brian(upstateNY)]

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[Jim C (Mich)]

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[Magyar]

I like finding these old coins as much as I enjoy finding rings..I love History .the older , the more interesting to me.

The beaches where I hunt are very old...some dating back to the later 1600's.I like to talk to the elderly people who frequent these beaches; they tell me stories of the history of a particular beach..where former cottages, cabins, home were originally built....information like that is valuable to me when deciding where in the water to detect.

I'm getting to know which beaches give up more coins than rings..and which give up more rings than coins and I hunt according to my whim of the day.

Not a coin collector, so I will just cash in the very poor quality silver coins.