Dirty Silver

beephead

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• Oct 19, 2017

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I got back out today to do some more metal detecting to see if I could find some more silver coins. I was doing a lot of cherry picking today and not much digging. When I finally did get my search coil over what thought was likely a silver coin, it almost went into the finds pouch instead of the water bottle that I put my silver coins in. After a closer look and a little rubbing I saw the date, 1953.

Silver coins in my area usually come out of the ground all nice and clean like they were just dropped. Every once in awhile I will find a silver coin that's tarnished. They're really hard to clean. Any pointers on cleaning them would be welcome and appreciated.

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T-Man

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Congrats, if you're not worried about cleaning a baking soda and water paste works fairly well. Also had decent results on silver with toothpaste.

 

DougF

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You might try acetone. It looks almost like it was painted or someone put fingernail polish on it. At one time I had some nitric acid - that stuff would take off anything, but you couldn't leave it on too long.

 

cellrdwellr

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• Oct 19, 2017

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Nice washington, congrats!

 

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Kind of looks like it went thru a fire..?Not sure how to remove that..Nice find.

 

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Don't know if this will work on that thing but using science is fast and easy and worth a try.
http://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=219715

 

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Thanks Everyone! I decided that I'm going to use it in my coin test garden. I'm going to buried the damn thing! LOL

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beephead said:

Thanks Everyone! I decided that I'm going to use it in my coin test garden. I'm going to buried the damn thing! LOL

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beephead

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LOL!!!! I just went out to my storage room to look in the coffee can that I threw my clad coins in from today's hunt. The reason that I did so was because today when I dug a dime I decided that it wasn't silver because it was so tarnished and I thought the date I saw was 1977. I left my little magnifying loop at home. Since I dug the tarnished silver quarter, I got to thinking that I might should take a second look with my magnifying glass. Damn, I found 2 silver Rosie dimes (1957 & 1959). Something in that yard was really causing them to tarnish.

I'm thinking that the 1959 Rosie came from my previous hunt when I found the Morgan silver dollar and 3 Washington quarters.

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