🔎 UNIDENTIFIED Flat Piece of metal With Patterns and an Edge

[AusTexDude]

It registers high on the AT Max, about an 85 up there with silver.

It has a slight upraised edge like a coin and hatching you can barely make out.

It's 13.2 grams, found in central texas

It's flat like a coin and evenly flat. When I lay it on a flat surface like a piece of glass it has no pivot points, it lays extremely flat.

 

[AusTexDude]

 

[AusTexDude]

It's too heavy for aluminum but feels too light for lead. When I scratched the edge it's bright silver extremely shiny.

 

[AusTexDude]

 

[AusTexDude]

Notice this U shape in it is very symmetrical

 

[AusTexDude]

It also seems to repel water much in the way concrete does when it has an oil stain.

 

[AusTexDude]

I must have stared at this thing with a magnifying glass for 2 hours. It feels like silver because it's too heavy for aluminum, too light for lead, wont bend, non magnetic, had some type of markings at one time. Baffled.

 

[robertk]

I could be wrong, but it just looks like a piece of melted lead to me. I've never seen silver with a crust on it like that.

 

[invent4hir]

Pewter? Not sure how the soil in central TX is on silver, but where I live, it comes out of the ground almost as silver as the day it went in - once the dirt is removed.

 

[AusTexDude]

Pewter? Not sure how the soil in central TX is on silver, but where I live, it comes out of the ground almost as silver as the day it went in - once the dirt is removed.

Yea I never saw shiny silver come out of the ground. I'm working in 98% limestone. It sticks to stuff. I have pulled pennies that were 1/4 inch thick

 

[Almy]

It looks like a "bug" type automobile side view with some of the detail worn off. But I don't think that's what it is.

 

[invent4hir]

Search TNet for testing silver at home. One thread is "Anyone know a good home silver test?" https://www.treasurenet.com/threads/anyone-know-a-good-home-silver-test.535045/

There are probably other threads, but since I've never used any, I can't say if/how well they work. Let us know what you find out.

 

[AusTexDude]

I could be wrong, but it just looks like a piece of melted lead to me. I've never seen silver with a crust on it like that.

LOL I have never seen silver without a crust on it. This pure limestone literally sticks to everything except gold. Every single piece of silver I have pulled from this lake has required extensive cleaning to get back to original glory.

 

[AusTexDude]

OK after cleaning a bit more and drying it overnight a faint 90 has started to show up.

 

[robertk]

a faint 90 has started to show up.

Where? I don't see it.

 

[pepperj]

Could this be a R

 

[AusTexDude]

Where? I don't see it.

It's easier to see in person than in the pic

 

[pepperj]

Some melted aluminum is pretty dense.
Could be zinc.
I've been fooled by some metals iver the years after they've been melted.

As a relic-not passing the value test.
Metal doesn't matter what you do to it the value won't change.

Do a density test. That will help you figuring out the metal.

Lead melts with a plumbers torch.

Put it in a vise, hit it with a 🔨 see how it bends or breaks.
If it looks sparkly bright and crystal looking then I will say zinc.
Just throwing things out from doing tests at the scrap yard days.

 

[AusTexDude]

Could this be a R

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I been trying to look at that it does not look the same in person with a magnifying glass as does the image.