Silver Bonanza!

[Brierfield]

This past week I searched a friend's property with my Racer. There have been a total of 3 different houses on the site, with the oldest from the early 1900s. The second house burned around 25 years ago, and the owner (my friend's Aunt) died in the fire. She was thought to have had some silver coins in the house at the time of the fire. So, I was searching for older coins that had been dropped, along with any of the silver from the house fire.

Well, I wound up finding ~30 ounces of the silver that had gone through the fire, and have posted a picture of it below. It's not cleaned-up, so some of it is not recognizable as silver. But, the Racer sure recognized it, with a SOLID 87 VDI! We think some of the silver could have come from sterling flatware, too.

Oh, added bonus: My friend was gracious enough to allow me to keep the silver!

I would like to have the silver melted and poured into small bars. Has anyone done this before? Should I approach someone who manufactures custom jewelry? Any ideas??

 

[coinhunterseth]

That looks like pot metal to me, certainly not silver. That stuff reads up very high in the coin range too.

 

[Brierfield]

Well, you could be right.

Some of the pieces are darker because I tried to clean them just before the photo.

I'll try and have some of it assayed to verify.

Thanks.

 

[Low-Boy/LCPM]

Don't think that is silver the racer will up a lot of metals in the 80s sorry if I'm right to write that...If that is silver then I'm rich cause I find a lot of that...sorry

 

[Brierfield]

Yeah, it's probably too good to be true!! Seemed a little too light for silver, anyway. Sorry for the incorrect post.

BTW, years ago I did have the pleasure of finding a nice silver cache. After my grandfather's death, we knew that he had buried some silver coins on his farm, and my Dad and I had a crude map that showed the location of the silver. After a short time we did find it: 3 one-gallon milk jugs filled with silver coins!

I suppose that may be my once-in-a-lifetime silver horde to find!

Thanks for everyone's input!

 

[3RINGER]

cut it and see. if it is then thats a hall.

 

[Pirate Pig]

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that is slag.

 

[JFlynn]

Silver takes about 1700 degrees to start melting, that would be a very hot house fire.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Brierfield,we have all been there and made mistakes.Good Luck Hunting Ron