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<p>[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 6585946, member: 26302"]I do not doubt your information sir. Thanks for the weights, showing some was lost. We do not really know how they were underwater, and there is a lot of them, so I am still supposing in a fairly small container, all together, and if not a lot of current, (because in a container), it seems very reasonable. Same as ancients found in a pot or bags of morgan dollars stored for a century. The more contained the coins are together, and the more coins in a group there are, the less each coin is affected. Morgan dollar bags would have bright white, untoned coins in the middle, and only the ones along the edges were toned. </p><p><br /></p><p>Take the same coin and throw it on the seabed, and the weight loss and surface condition would be much different. I have friends who scuba dive, and silver coins they find randomly in the ocean are in MUCH worst shape being younger than the coin you depicted sir. </p><p><br /></p><p>My comment about how the Romans surface leeched 5% silver flans was also from a friend who strikes medieval style coins. He replicated the process, and I was there when he took flans he leeched in saltwater that looked like pure copper, but upon striking the ions of silver left on the surface melted and coated the coin with a thin silver plating.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="medoraman, post: 6585946, member: 26302"]I do not doubt your information sir. Thanks for the weights, showing some was lost. We do not really know how they were underwater, and there is a lot of them, so I am still supposing in a fairly small container, all together, and if not a lot of current, (because in a container), it seems very reasonable. Same as ancients found in a pot or bags of morgan dollars stored for a century. The more contained the coins are together, and the more coins in a group there are, the less each coin is affected. Morgan dollar bags would have bright white, untoned coins in the middle, and only the ones along the edges were toned. Take the same coin and throw it on the seabed, and the weight loss and surface condition would be much different. I have friends who scuba dive, and silver coins they find randomly in the ocean are in MUCH worst shape being younger than the coin you depicted sir. My comment about how the Romans surface leeched 5% silver flans was also from a friend who strikes medieval style coins. He replicated the process, and I was there when he took flans he leeched in saltwater that looked like pure copper, but upon striking the ions of silver left on the surface melted and coated the coin with a thin silver plating.[/QUOTE]
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