This is NOT how you suppose to find silver!

[chukers]

I have hunted this place while they were clearing this lot but I haven't after they finished leveling it... so I decided to go take a look and see what I could find... I really wasn't find much a few brass and copper pieces... and then...

I dunno if I like video over pictures... I thought I'd try one and see what you all thought!

Chukers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPMmj3O4NE

 

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[g-olden years]

Enjoyed your video! Congrats on the silver. Bet that elderly dime's been a lot of places before she ended up sitting on top of the dirt. They say money talks, nice if she'd tell her story, lol. Andi

 

[dwatson4]

I got a barber quarter like that a few weeks ago, all black, didn't want to clean up still has some black stain on it and the surface seemed kind of distorted like your dime. I think it was in a fire, you dime may have seen some heat as well.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

now that's a great eyeball find!

 

[dirty digger dude]

any way you find it is a good way!

 

[Indiana Digger]

I got a barber quarter like that a few weeks ago, all black, didn't want to clean up still has some black stain on it and the surface seemed kind of distorted like your dime. I think it was in a fire, you dime may have seen some heat as well.

I'll agree with that statement - I found a Barber Dime and an 1889 IH, both had a thin coating on them.
After a quick shot of electrolysis, they cleaned up nicely but were pitted and damaged by the goo.



But like you said "silver is silver"!

 

[LASTCHANCE72]

Nice find Chuck!! Video is great ! We will have to go hunt that area again before they make a parking lot out of it.

 

[allen]

i'll take an ugly silver anyday over a new clad !!

 

[chukers]

Nice find Chuck!! Video is great ! We will have to go hunt that area again before they make a parking lot out of it.

yeah there has to be more than one!

 

[chukers]

i'll take an ugly silver anyday over a new clad !!

thats for sure!

Chukers

 

[ivan salis]

fire is correct call in my book as to what happen to it ---when ash from a fire mixes with water --a caustic * is produced (somewhat like lye - used in soap making in the old days )--this of course coats / darkens and pits the coins surfaces .

 

[dwebb210]

In the name of maintaining accuracy, I would like to correct one thing.

When a fire burns wood, and the ash is exposed to water, it hydrates the mineral oxides forming a caustic, not an acid.

Sodium and potassium hydroxide.

fire is correct call in my book as to what happen to it ---when ash from a fire mixes with water --a acid is produced (somewhat like lye - used in soap making in the old days )--this of course coats / darkens and pits the coins surfaces .

 

[Daedalus]

Nice video ! I bet you find more there at that site over the summer .

 

[ivan salis]

corrected from acid to caustic * -- bottom line is the wood ash and water combo -- forms a substance that coats / darkens and will eat away at (pit) coins over time --- both caustics and acids will "burn" or eat up (destroy) stuff chemically speaking

 

[chukers]

Nice video ! I bet you find more there at that site over the summer .

I'm hoping to... my hunting partners were skeptical of the site... that one reason I made the video... I had a feeling there was somehting there... but really didn't expect to find it on the ground till I seen all the milkglass on top of the ground!


Chukers