Weird dark grey 1959 dime.....???

[cdickrun64]

The only reason I found this beauty was because of Apush's recent post regarding checking all the "dark" looking rims.......
Any ideas as to why it is so dark??......grades XF......thanks!!

 

[jeff of pa]

was probably found in water or Mud ?

or an area that was Water or mud for many years ?

 

[brendan1414]

He probably has african heritage.

 

[cdickrun64]

FYI...this was pulled from a CWR....not a detector find......

 

[enamel7]

FYI...this was pulled from a CWR....not a detector find......

That doesn't matter. Someone could have found it detecting in the past and it got returned to circulation.
HH
enamel7

 

[ivan salis]

the silver in has "tarnished"-- often when silver tarnishes it first turns sorta yellow then it turns dark in color. --silver coins found in salt water areas are often jet black in color due to the effects of "minerals" in salt water on the silver.

might be a former lost / now found coin that got rolled up by a person or else deposited into the bank and then later on rolled up

 

[ivan salis]

(the teller at my bank, I go to often said to my request for halfs) I got several "burnt" looking ones --sure you want em ? she held one up --it was clearly badly tarnished silver * --I said ya , I'll take all of em you got -- out of $5 worth -- 7 out of 10 were silver * - 1 90% and 6 - 40% was headed to the coinstore at the time , so I sold the silver for $30-- $12 for the 90% and $3 x 6 = $18 for the 40%-- once I replaced my starter $5-- i was $25 + 3 clad halves to the good -- easy $26.50 profiet.

 

[jeff of pa]

FYI...this was pulled from a CWR....not a detector find......

That doesn't matter. Someone could have found it detecting in the past and it got returned to circulation.
HH
enamel7

Yes Exactly.

The fact it was gray probably prevented the Finder
from realizing it was silver

 

[Piledriver]

Someone's kitchen-sink idea for cleaning coins?

 

[Emperor Findus Cladius]

Just looks to be heavy tarnishing. I have seen some others the same way.

 

[Goldmanford]

I have dug black dimes before that were silver and I think it has something to do with the soil mineralization. This one may have been dug and placed back in circulation but it looks more like just plain tarnish like grandmas silver spoons.

 

[koala33]

He probably has african heritage.

 

[CHAINCHOMP]

He probably has african heritage.

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[Tuberale]

I have a suspicion, but don't know for certain. Silver chloride is sensitive to light. Exposure of silver to salt could create surface silver chloride, which would turn nearly black upon exposure to air. That's why silver chloride was/is used in photographic emulsions.

Doesn't NY use a lot of rock salt to de-ice roads still?