silver spoons

[sonny61]

Found these spoons yesterday in a field where a house stood from the 1800's to the 1900's before being torn down. Last year we found some IH's and a seated half dime there. On the backside of the spoons it says "EXTRA coin silver plate". Wonder what old silver coins they melted down to do this with? Sonny

 

[HCW]

Found these spoons yesterday in a field where a house stood from the 1800's to the 1900's before being torn down. Last year we found some IH's and a seated half dime there. On the backside of the spoons it says "EXTRA coin silver plate". Wonder what old silver coins they melted down to do this with? Sonny

The extra ones......

 

[fathead]

Tee hee hee

Nice one.

FH

 

[Jeep]

Found these spoons yesterday in a field where a house stood from the 1800's to the 1900's before being torn down. Last year we found some IH's and a seated half dime there. On the backside of the spoons it says "EXTRA coin silver plate". Wonder what old silver coins they melted down to do this with? Sonny

The extra ones......

 

[Silver Searcher]

8)

Cool spoons, they look identical perhaps part of a set, could be more there

SS

 

[tuatara]

Found these spoons yesterday in a field where a house stood from the 1800's to the 1900's before being torn down. Last year we found some IH's and a seated half dime there. On the backside of the spoons it says "EXTRA coin silver plate". Wonder what old silver coins they melted down to do this with? Sonny The extra ones......

Coin Silver: A term applied to silver to indicate the purity of the metal. Originally, the most
readily available source of silver was in the form of coins, their purity being the standard
of each country's coinage. That standard would vary from country to country. By 1830,
American silversmiths were often buying their silver from suppliers in the form of sheets.
They began stamping the silver Coin, C, Dollar, D, Premium, Pure Coin, or Standard to
indicate the objects were of the same silver standard as U.S. coinage, which was 90% (900/1000). Coin silver continued to be the predominant silver grade used in the U.S. until 1868. In that year Gorham announced it was changing over to the higher grade sterling (925/1000) standard, and everyone else in the U.S. quickly followed suit.

In short, your nice spoons are plated with 900 silver which is a bit below sterling standard of 925. Oneida used to make a lot of silver coin plate spoons.