Help Silver Medallion ? Silver Dollar Size

[slider66]

Today I went to a beach North of Jensen Beach. I found what I thought was a silver dollar but it turned out to be a bicentennial medallion with possible religeous conotations. I was wondering if anyone has seen this and can tell me if this could be silver? It has the weight of silver. Thanks for looking.

 

[lost items recovery]

You can drop it into a silver soak and if it is it will have little bubbles coming out of it. That is if you don't mind the coin being cleaned.
Boil water, line a bowl with aluminum foil, add 2 tablespoons of baking soda and 1 tablespoon of salt but watch out it will foam up real fast. Drop in coin and as things settle down look to see if it's bubbling. If it's then it'll be silver.

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[slider66]

Thanks I will try that.


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[MiamiFox]

You can drop it into a silver soak and if it is it will have little bubbles coming out of it. That is if you don't mind the coin being cleaned.
Boil water, line a bowl with aluminum foil, add 2 tablespoons of baking soda and 1 tablespoon of salt but watch out it will foam up real fast. Drop in coin and as things settle down look to see if it's bubbling. If it's then it'll be silver.

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Yep try the soak

 

[wildcarrot]

Slider,

Pick yourself up a Test Stone Kit...they are cheap and work perfectly. You get all the acid test bottles for 10k 14k 18k Silver and Platinum + a scratch stone. It's a great little tool to have around. Scratch coins, rings anything you might think is precious metal on the stone pad and drip some acid on it. I bought a PuriTest on ebay for less than 20 bucks...You might also check out a diamond tester they are also inexpensive...You'll need one when you find that ring with stones and you ask yourself, is that a diamond?.....

Happy Hunting
Rich

 

[slider66]

Rich
Thanks for the information. I will look into it.


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[Diggin-N-Dumps]

That's a cool find...would be hard tell its silver since you have it. Have you ever cleaned silver? The tarnish comes off black on a smooth rag..you should rub the edge of the coin to see if it leaves black marks and polishes the coins edge..have you dropped it or flipped it to see if it at least sounds like silver?

You should be able to tell quickly if it's silver or not


great find thou..show a piece next to another coin and how thick it is

plus if you weigh it and it's dead on a Troy ounce.that could be good