Pleasant surprise

[chasu]

I have been detecting a flower bed that is being dug up. it is at an old house location. So far I have found mostly clad coins. I went out Thursday night trying to beat the weekend rains. I dug what I thought was a crusty clad dime. I was cleaning my finds and I couldn't see the date on the coin. It was encrusted pretty badly. It had soaked for 2 days and wasn't getting any better. I rubbed some baking soda on it and noticed a silver spot. I finished cleaning it and much to my surprise I had a beautiful 1917S Mercury dime. Silver is not normally encrusted in our soil, but I will check all of my coins more closely now. Pix were taken using my 10x loop held over my Iphone camera lens. Thanks for looking.
Charlie

 

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[SusanMN]

Lovely job of cleaning, the dime looks beautiful. I had the same situation with a seated dime I found last spring. It came out so brown and crusted, I thought it was a Lincoln penny until I noticed it was a tad smaller. Unfortunately, a big portion of the metal was gone. Learned the lesson that you always need to check out your finds.

 

[tennessee digger]

Great looking coin. Tennessee digger

 

[detroitdigger]

Sweet merc!!!

 

[John Boy]

Way to go.great looking merc.

 

[wlb42]

Great save, Charlie.........I love OLD Home sites, that have never been hunted before......Good Luck.....I think you will find even more silver there...

Happy Hunting!!

Bill

 

[chasu]

Thanks for the comments folks. It was headed straight to the clad jar. I hate I had to clean it, but it still came out really nice.

 

[DJWEHAGE]

Very nice! Great detail!

 

[dig kzoo]

Great merc!

 

[Silver Worm]

Wow! Nice looking coin.

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[chiloquin]

WOW! That Merc is in great condition. Good job. HH

 

[wheatfinder13]

Great merc