Water = ring :)

[Mike from MI]

Hit the water today and netted a nice older sterling ring, 3 wheats, a 1943 S silver war nickel, a Catholic pendant, over 50 clad and some misc. The ring is a size 4 a little smaller than a dime. There are before and after pics of the cleaning of the ring and silver war nickel. I also wated to show you what the acid in the lake bottom does to older clad. It eats the copper right out from between the silver. In the pic are 3 quarters and 4 dimes.

[fistfulladirt]

Clad sandwich!

And thats one heck of a cleaning job on the silver! ffd

[postalgriff]

nice finds and great pics, congrats on the silver! I've never seen that before with clad erroding. I had a dream last night that you were an exboyfriend of my wife, and you sent her that gold nike ring in the mail.

[Rookie2]

That ring sure did clean up good.

[Mike from MI]

nice finds and great pics, congrats on the silver! I've never seen that before with clad erroding. I had a dream last night that you were and exboyfriend of my wife, and you sent her that gold nike ring in the mail.

Too funny! I guess if I do I will have to change the "N" to an "M".
Also I will wait to her check clears!

[Clad 2 meet u]

Nice finds Mike. I went to a lake yesterday and noticed that it wasn't too kind to the wheat pennies I found. They were 1/2 the thickness of what they once were and were crusted over where I had to break away the crust just to see what I had.

[Mike from MI]

Nice finds Mike. I went to a lake yesterday and noticed that it wasn't too kind to the wheat pennies I found. They were 1/2 the thickness of what they once were and were crusted over where I had to break away the crust just to see what I had.

Same here yesterday where I got these finds. It is a good spot, and there should be some old gold there!

[Brentallica]

Nice collection of finds. Ring cleaned up good.
Good job Mike

[desertfox]

Nice finds, Mike. That ring really cleaned up, looks almost new again. Looking at the coins, I take it that you don't drink the water! lol

HH

Desertfox

[RickRobinson]

That's amazing how the clad gets eaten away like that. It must really take it's toll on the pennies too. How long do you think the clad was in the water? -RR

[Mike from MI]

That's amazing how the clad gets eaten away like that. It must really take it's toll on the pennies too. How long do you think the clad was in the water? -RR

30 to 40 years by the dates. Yes it does work on the pennies too. They look sand blasted and start to lose their dates.

[Clad 2 meet u]

Lake St. Clair is kind to wheats and older silver but the inland lakes seem to eat away at the coins. I'm wondering if it has anything to do with fertilizer that the homeowners use on their lawns?

[NGE]

Be very careful when water hunting in the Atlantic Ocean beaches. The same thing happens with the clad there. Why I say be careful? When the copper erodes away really bad, the nickel turns into circular razor blades, and can cut you very severely..........NGE

[Giant056]

Great bunch of finds Mike

[Michiganne]

Great finds, Mike and thanks for sharing the neat pics.

HH

[michigan michael]

[BandB1]

Wow that war nick and ring both cleaned up real nice,

HH.