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Six silver day...

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Jack(IN)

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Hit the "wheat field" again and its starting to turn a little silver...todays totals are:
1916 Walking Liberty Half, 2 clad quarters, 4 clad dimes, 5 Mercs(35, 39, 40, 40-D, 41), 2 clad nickels, 1926 Buffalo Nickel, 9 memorial cents, 12 wheat cents, and a nice Indiana Railroad token good for one fare! The Walker was a measured nine inches deep and is about as ugly as they come, took awhile to get it as clean as it is!
 
Some electrolysis would make that Walker look like new.

I found the Barber half below on the beach after hurricane Isabel. It was black, like the Rosie dime. I didn't take a before picture of it.
[attachment 19774 IsabelFinds.jpg]

Here you can see some before and after in the next two pics. Of course these coins were under salt water for decades, so there was significant pitting on some already.

Here are two links on doing it:

http://www.tomstreasures.com/elec.htm

http://www.mycoincollecting.com/collecting/cleaning-coins-electrolysis.html
 
Looks good in my book and the big one's are starting to show. Great find, did you try the cleaning method in one of the earlier post's that was used to clean up the silver? If their not worth anything and you want a clean coin it just might be worth a try.Forget the cleaning part of the post as I read Mike's after I sent this one. Sorry
 
If you want to get the black off of your silver like that, you need to invest in an Electrolysis machine. It runs off of electric current and would take most if not all of the black deposits off of the coin. Rick(ND) has one of these and when I get coins that look like that, I take them to him and he tries to clean them up for me. You do have to be careful though, because if you turn the current up too high, it will pit the coin or coins. This unit is like a power supply. It has 2 clamps( like the ones on your battery jumping cables) and are put into salt water. I'm not sure if you put a stainless piece of metal in the negative clamp or the positive one. (Rick(ND) will have to tell how it works due to having one) Anyways. you take and put the coin into the other clamp and sit both clamps in the bowl of saltwater about 1" away from one another. Then you adjust the current that is going thru the water and just make sure not too high for this will pit silver coins. The electric current pulls the crud off of the coin sometimes, just depends how bad they are. It also works for other metals but then you must be absolutely be careful due to it will pit copper a lot easier. If need more info on this please drop Rick(ND) a line about it by doing a private message. And nice post and Happy Hunting!:detecting:
 
n/t
 
Nice finds!

I found one of those tokens years ago when I lived near Cleveland Ohio.

I think they operated from 1932-1940.
 
No problem. And no mishap either...I just wanted to make sure you saw the links, because it's really easy to set one up. You ought to make one. In fact, here's a picture of mine, complete with the power brick I used. It was from a set of computer speakers.

I use distilled water in it and stir in about a half teaspoon of baking soda...that's it. Then cook to taste. :)
 
Very interesting. I see the negative lead goes on the coin and the positive to the fork. Does the fork end up with the tarnish on it then?
I tried a 30 percent HCLO4 in a beaker. And in the beaker I had some quarters and some dirty pennies. After about 5 minutes the pennies started to break down and turned the quarters a nice light copper color. Kind of like the Sac dollar color. If you do this for fun make sure you have gloves and eye cover with that strong of acid.
I will be trying lab grade Hydrogen peroxide next.

jimb
 
You should use a spoon,and salt. Is that a picture of Mike? you look like the guy in reno 911 in the short shorts,must be your boating back ground.:usaa:
 
The fork will enentually end up needing to be replaced, though I have used mine for many a session and it's still doing the job. But yes, the fork does sustain some tarnish and deterioration.
 
Just wondering if there is a big difference between salt water and the baking soda method that you mentioned? Also, does it clean the coins just as good as the salt water does?
 
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