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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 7874248, member: 10461&quot;]Yes, that does look similar in photographs, but the cratering effect with the exposed copper in an ancient fourree is deeper, and <i>beneath</i> the surface, whereas the environmental damage on this coin is more a case of deposits <i>on</i> the surface.</p><p><br /></p><p>It’s definitely silver: .925 fine (Sterling). After 2+ centuries of burial in a salty environment like that, it would look even worse if it wasn’t.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The first large cent I ever found was at the edge of a similar Lowcountry salt marsh here in Georgia (which had been a shipbuilding site during the Revolution and late 1700s).&nbsp; The coin was barely identifiable as a 1796-1807 Draped Bust cent when I found it, but was extremely rough, like this piece.&nbsp; I then made the blunder of trying to clean it with electrolysis, in attempting to coax the date off it.&nbsp; That made it worse, and it’s a featureless, porous copper slug now.&nbsp; Had it been a silver coin, a little more of the detail would have survived.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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