old Silver, looks like ?
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Kapi
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I'd bet money on it 
oh oops you weren't asking you were stating Yep that's silver! Show us how it looks after you clean it?
oh oops you weren't asking you were stating Yep that's silver! Show us how it looks after you clean it?
Captain Silver
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Congrats on the silvers!
Probably not a few decades. Silver will grow a case around it fast. That silver looks about 2 or 3 years in salt water. Just a guess of course but I have found silver far worse from beaches that are not decades old. If it was there decades it would be encased really thick with a dark coating, not a grey coat and probably mostly dissolved. You can tap it gently with a small hammer to remove the coat. It will pop off easy. Decades old silver will have dissolved with small rings like those. Very cool find though. I would leave them alone for show and tell. 
Ice Scratcher
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Nice work on the silver!!
Man, I'm always thankful to not have those exact issues with my fresh water silvers in Lake Erie..
Inland lakes can get pretty tough on em...
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Man, I'm always thankful to not have those exact issues with my fresh water silvers in Lake Erie..
Inland lakes can get pretty tough on em...
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WildDigger
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Electrolysis cleans them up nicely I might add.
