Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin. *SOLVED*

[CrazySlasher]

Went out for a while today and hit Plymouth beach here in MA. Figured there would be a lot of goodies from the bad storm we had yesterday. Sadly, I screwed up my times and the tides weren't being very friendly. I did find a coin that has me stumped. It's larger than a quarter and reading as silver on my E-trac. As you can see, it's fried. Any and all tips on cleaning this would be appreciated.

 

[Kirk PA]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

It could be a Colonial copper. It is hard to tell.

Kirk

 

[CrazySlasher]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

It could be a Colonial copper. It is hard to tell.

Kirk

That's what I originally thought, but it's not reading as one on my e-trac. It's reading as silver and giving me that nice flute like sound.

 

[OldNorthwest]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

It looks kind of like a "cookie coin" that some of the beach hunters around here normally post. Maybe electrolysis will help you tell.

Nice find!

 

[Bushido Dude]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

Seated or barber quarter :P I'll keep my fingers crossed for you its something good Nice digs

 

[testing123]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

I found a silver quarter last year that looked exactly like that.

My method probably wasn't the best but I just soaked it in water and started using my fingernail on the edge of the coin (so it wouldn't scratch). All of that stuff came off in a couple hours. Mine was a '39 quarter, hope yours is older!

 

[CrazySlasher]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

So long as it's silver or copper, I'm happy. I'm not a beach hunter, at all...so finding any silver or copper coin at the beach makes me happy.

 

[Woodland Detectors]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

It could be a Colonial copper. It is hard to tell.

Kirk

That's what I originally thought, but it's not reading as one on my e-trac. It's reading as silver and giving me that nice flute like sound.

No, you meat that super high pitched violin note. LOL

 

[CrazySlasher]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

It could be a Colonial copper. It is hard to tell.

Kirk

That's what I originally thought, but it's not reading as one on my e-trac. It's reading as silver and giving me that nice flute like sound.

No, you meat that super high pitched violin note. LOL

Hahaha...silver gives me a flute like tone where something like a clad dime or quarter gives me a violin sound.

 

[CrazySlasher]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

Started cleaning it like crazy and all of a sudden I felt it crumble a bit and thought, "oh sh*&." Then I see that there's a much thinner coin inside this grime and I can see the silver on the rim where it crumbled.

 

[kimba]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

could be a 2 Reale.

 

[CrazySlasher]

Re: Detecting Plymouth Beach-MA. Mystery coin.

could be a 2 Reale.

Sadly, it's not a reale or anything colonial. A toasty, dateless Standing Liberty Quarter.

 

[penniesmine]

Super great find for the beach

 

[Bushido Dude]

Whelp I was close with my guess, def a silver quarter, was hoping it was older though, either way silver is silver

 

[ANTIQUARIAN]

Hey, as Bushido Dude already said . . . it's still silver!
Of course, a 2 reale would of been really sweet!

Cheers,
Dave

 

[dfx willy]

thats cool dave! ive never found anything old at the beach. willy

 

[MKnTenn]

It may be toast but it's a silver quarter and that ain't bad. HH

 

[steelheadwill]

Congrats on the Silver!
I get those sandcrust coins fairly often,
I think the best you can do is soak & gently flake the coating off,
you can often get it off in onepiece & have a better image on the flake than the coin
Here's an SLQ I got under the same crust, Yours made it through better!
thanks for posting!

 

[CrazySlasher]

thats cool dave! ive never found anything old at the beach. willy

We can change that!