Found on the beach. Is it gold?

[kpeterk]

I found this at Daytona Beach Shores yesterday with my Whites PI. Didn't think much of it but put it in my pocket. After leaving, I gave it a closer look. Seems like it could be gold but I'm not sure. It is not magnetic, and not rusty. I thought it may be pyrite and heard that if you hit pyrite with a hammer, it will shatter. Well, after hitting it with a hammer, it doesn't shatter but bends. Weighs 1/3 ounce. What do you guys think?

 

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[skalleewag]

looks like a quarter

 

[Bavaria Mike]

Looks like you have a piece of natural copper, neat find! HH, Mike

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Looks like copper to me too.

Keep @ it and HH!!

 

[WhiteHunter]

Looks like you have a piece of natural copper, neat find! HH, Mike

I agree

 

[goldgrubber]

Yep! Looks like copper.

 

[allen]

Welcome to treasurenet
I got to agree with everyone else,
looks like a piece of copper.

 

[Jason in TN]

Do not think it is copper it would be green. and you do not find copper at Daytona unless some one carried it and dropped it there.
Could be copper but most of the time it turns green. sounds to heavy for copper too.

 

[Eric Willoughby]

This might sound a little off the wall, but no more than finding a chunk of gold or copper on Daytona Beach. I can't tell for sure from the pictures, and seeing that Daytona doesn't have natural gold or copper, I believe this piece may have have been washed into shore from a sunken ship that was carrying raw ore. This is about the only explanation I could come up with.

 

[spartacus53]

Welcome to T-Net and the Capt made a good observation. It may be from a wreck.