Silver today, but what the heck happened to him...

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Got a silver quarter today, but I did not realize what I had till I got home and cleaned it.

Tell me if you don't think this looks like someone hit it with acid. At least after some baking soda I could see poor ole George V and some writing and the date on the back.

1919 George V Twenty Five cents. The scratches on the front I must have done, it was wedged under a pine tree root and I didn't know what I had till it flew out of the hole. Even then it looked like some kind of white aluminum token. So i just tossed it in my pouch and kept hunting.

Full sized pics here:
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[tvr]

Good question! I have no idea ... but am wondering if maybe movement of the tree root, as the wind swayed the pine, may have hammered the bark pattern into the silver over many years?

Very neat find!

 

[bfodnes]

Thats the way some coins that have been exposed to heavy salt for ages look.

There must be salts or acids in that environment.

 

[TheGeorgiaCanuck]

Thats the way some coins that have been exposed to heavy salt for ages look.

There must be salts or acids in that environment.

Was under a large pine tree root, pine trees have acidic sap.

 

[Dan-Pa.]

I like the acidic theories myself but anyone ever think it may have been in a fire...Getting some coins from farmlands (fertilyzer) does a job on them also....

 

[scubadetector]

A rare silver sucking earthworm found it before you did?