:usaflag: Salt Water Loves To Eat Silver Coins!! :detecting:

[Cupajo]

Digging up old silver coins in salt water at the local beach over the years has been fun!

It is a sad event to remove the encrustation of salt, sand and silver oxide and discover a wafer of silver so thin that you can bend it between your fingers.

Collector's value is gone and bullion value is all that is left.

This is a Roosie photo essay illustrating the encrustation partly removed and how badly the coin is dammaged!

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Once in a while an oldie will be recovered with only a thin coating of silver oxide and hardly any damage at all, but this doesn't happen often.

GL&HH Friends,

CJ

 

[mickfin]

Cutago sure dos, Mickfin

 

[chip0877]

Ouch...
And I thought WNY soil was bad on pennies. Nice old find none the less.

 

[Ism]

CJ,

How are you removing the encrustation?

Randy

 

[Cupajo]

It peels off fairly easily leaving behind whatever metal is left of the coin/object.

(This happens to silver jewelry too.)

Thanks for your replies Fellow Hunters,

CJ