Silver dime doesn't always shine

[Picketwire]

After tumbling to clean my dimes and quarters, upon inspection I found a 1946 and 1962 Rosevelt. I have found silver coins before that were obvious when I first saw them but these were as dirty as all the others. They didn't even stand out after tumbling. Only when I had a stack of dimes and looked at them end wise did the silver stand out from the ones with copper showing. It pays to check.

 

[miserman]

That's good news, hopefully you can remember where they were dug and can return to the site.

 

[jim tn]

Nice couple of saves. I dug what turned out to be a Merc. the other day that had clay grunge all over it and as I was about to pocket as a clad dime I noticed one speck of shiny. After a pretty hard spit rubbing I got a faint hint of Mercury's head. It was also from an area I had never dug silver from so it almost made the clad pile. Would have spotted it, though, after tumbling, I guess. Had em come out black, but never a tan hard grunge like that one. HH jim tn

 

[Ronstar]

Where I am silver comes out silver, might be a bit blackish if soil is odd.

It takes me some time but I keep a list of odd mint struck coins and check each one before putting in rolls etc., some of those can be worth a chunk of change!!!

 

[jim tn]

Where I am silver comes out silver, might be a bit blackish if soil is odd.

Pretty much the same with the silver here, too. Blackish coins seem to be most common for me when recovering any from stone/rocky kind of driveways and demo sites that had some amount of blacktop. Not sure what the deal was with the one I mentioned above, as it still hasn't cleaned up all that well using soda and vinegar. Finally got a date of 1919 off it. HH jim tn

 

[utmike]

Some of the silver in my town comes out with something like a calcified shell covering it. Buggers to clean... like you, I've had a few surprise silvers in the clad I tumble. Nice saves!