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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3119252, member: 19463&quot;]And how many do you think read that article, Victor?&nbsp; In all honesty, I believe we need to consider the fact that the silvering process had to be accomplished in a way that could produce a million coins a week so hot dipping was not practical.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I propose a test of the other likely technique mentioned in the article.&nbsp; We need to place a large quantity of coins or blanks (need to determine when we think the silver was added) in a large vat of an amalgam of silver and mercury.&nbsp; Then we need to assign a minimum wage grad student/intern (closest thing to a slave currently available) to paw through the mess with bare hands until well coated and transferred to a similar vat of olive oil before spreading out to dry.&nbsp; The residual mercury would evaporate off in time as I understand it.&nbsp; It might be necessary to change the slave/interns every so often.&nbsp; I doubt there would be any trace mercury after 100 years let alone 1600??? </p><p><br /></p><p>I collected coins as a child.&nbsp; My mother was a nurse.&nbsp; She brought me trash mercury from broken thermometers and I loved playing with the stuff.&nbsp; One thing I did was making silvery pennies by rubbing mercury on with my fingers.&nbsp;&nbsp; If that is not a sufficient excuse for all the faults of my generation, my father used to take me out to watch the crop duster planes spreading DDT.&nbsp; It was the kind of sight that made you look up in amazement with mouth agape and saying aaaahhh.&nbsp; I don&#039;t want to hear even a suggestion of concern that silver plating coins might have an impact on mint worker slaves.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.mylot.com/post/1906068/has-anyone-ever-heard-of-husk-drawing-salve" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mylot.com/post/1906068/has-anyone-ever-heard-of-husk-drawing-salve" rel="nofollow">http://www.mylot.com/post/1906068/has-anyone-ever-heard-of-husk-drawing-salve</a></p><p>Every boo-boo I had as a kid was treated with HUSK salve.&nbsp; The hospital bought it in huge crocks and used it as surgical dressing before everything contained antibiotics.&nbsp;&nbsp; Like the link above mentions, it was another mercury containing thing from my past.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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