Look at all these hairlines on Detecto's coin

Yikes!

 

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I don't get it. Must have missed something, did you buy this from him?

 

:scratch:

 

I know the coin has hairlines. Not selling this to anyone.

This coin was found by my father with a metal detector about 8 years ago. When it came out of the ground it was blast white (as is most silver pulled from the ground), but has retoned since.

My dad cleaned it with a toothbrush, but I was too young to know about not cleaning coins, to stop him.

This is a submission along with 4 other coins to PCGS. I know it's cleaned, but I figured it would be a nice coin to submit.

 

Most silver pulled from the ground is blast white? Could swear its natrually a gray/dull silver metal only until it's polished does it become blast white.

 

Here are some silver coins I found detecting, they have a whitish tone to them.

 

Silver usually turns a dull gray and eventually black when it has been in the ground for any length of time. All of these coins appear to have been cleaned.

Chris

 

I dunno......I've seen lot's of ugly gray stuff in my time. Heck, silver reacts to the environment and if that environment is the damp cold ground (and not the Gobi Desert) there's gonna be some sort of oxidation (rusting?) goin' on........

 

It all depends on what's in the soil. Here are two dimes I found in 2010, and I didn't touch them with anything.

 

Tim. You live in the Gobi?

 

i bet his soil is balanced and very low ph level. we dont get coins from the ground here in iowa that are that clean.. the corn grows nicely so we dont complain too much. lol

 

Thank the good Lord for that Cody.....

 

Yikes! May I ask why an "awesome 11 year old numismatist" cares so much about Detecto's coin? Not a very "awesome" thing to do IMHO.

"Blast white", huh? If you say so....

 

What, may I inquire, is the point of this thread?

 

It all depends on the type of soil. Some come out of the ground white, not blast white, and others are darker. I have found that the white silver I have dug started toning dark really quickly.

 

I have to agree, why just pick a coin out of the blue that you don't even own and bash it?

 

Because he's eleven. Some of his comments really give young collectors a bad name.
I'd love to see all of his amazing Bust dimes.

 

This is sad. Be nice frostyluster! Internet trolls aren't cool.

 

That capped bust looks better than any in my collection.

 

Mine too!

Actually the back story to the coin is pretty cool too - he found it with his Dad.