Recent Hunts with coins, a button, and misc

[ironman200081]

I spent the last three hunts here in Mid-MO digging up a bunch of stuff. One hunt was a public park, the other two were on private land with the owner's permission. The private land residences contained old houses. One had a cabin on it built in the 1870's, and another residence built in the 1920's. I didn't have the camera to film the private land hunts. One was a spur of the moment deal -- we were at a friend's house for a birthday party and I mentioned detecting. I just happened to have the E-Trac in the car, and the owner and I poked around a bit. For all hunts, I used the 6x8 SEF coil and a modified version of Andy's coin pattern. I ran sensitivity at 26 Manual.

I found a lot of clad and miscellaneous metal, including a large button with an eagle on it. I know nothing about buttons; don't know if it is military or what. I found five silver dimes -- a Barber, 3 Mercs, and a Roosevelt. I also found a stained Standing Liberty quarter and a really stained 1876 Seated quarter. I tried all I know ton clean them up, but all methods failed. Any suggestions are appreciated.

The Standing quarter hit at 7 inches as a 7-47.

The video to my hunt is provided below. [video]http://youtu.be/qtVsYq1WLwY[/video]

 

[Ken in Georgia]

Cool Video!!!

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

Nice video. I found a couple common date silver coins with the same type of staining. Like you, I tried everything that I knew to safely clean them with no results. I finally broke down and used a silver cleaner on them. I dumped a little in a bowl and let them sit in it for about an hour or so. They came out pretty clean. Now, I would never do that on any silver unless it was a common date, so I checked the date, made sure that it was not a error coin, etc., before hand.

 

[ironman200081]

Steve, what type of silver cleaner did you use? I tried my wife's jewelry cleaner and my Nic-A-Lene silver coin cleaner with no luck.

 

[moose]

Have you tried electrolisis? beautiful finds and it looks like it was an awesome hunt.

Thx4 post,

Moose

 

[banditicey]

Steve, what type of silver cleaner did you use? I tried my wife's jewelry cleaner and my Nic-A-Lene silver coin cleaner with no luck.

I know this sounds drastic but if it is for your own happiness and not rare you can DIP the coin in Silver Cleaner and observe it and when ready remove the coin

Afterwards I dried the coin and rubbed some Silver Polish to brighten it up because the DIP will dull the coin

Electrolysis is an option and so is this method

Good Luck

 

[E-TREC-Virginia]

Steve, what type of silver cleaner did you use? I tried my wife's jewelry cleaner and my Nic-A-Lene silver coin cleaner with no luck.

It was Tarn-X. Like banditicey said a few posts ago, you may need to rub some silver polish on it, as the Tarn-X will dull the coin and give it a whiteish color.