Beach finds... silver and token

[Dirty Knees McGee]

Among the usual clad and trash... I did pretty well today.? I found a nice Italian sterling silver necklace.? Man was that puppy black with tarnish, gonna take a while to clean.?

I also found my first token.? I'll try to get pictures up.? It appears to be a copper plated peice of thinner? metal, not as thick as a penny, about the size of a half dollar.? It is stamped " Good for a 5 cent drink 119 North Street.'? The back is just the impression from the stamping.? Any ideas?? Once I get my digital camera from my wife, I think I'll post it in the "Whats This" forum, since I have no idea about age (maybe pre-prohibition?).

 

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[lonewolfe]

Store/bar token for a free drink!!

cool find!

HH

Lonewolfe

 

[MUD(S.W.A.T)]

Old token, not many/no drinks $0.05 today. My first good find was a token. Keep it HH!!

 

[Dirty Knees McGee]

well, since I am a newbie and I didn't know about this website when I found these, here are a few other goodies I found a while back.? Aside from the necklace I found and posted today, those two dimes are the only other silver I have found.

1) 1944 Mercury Dime
2) 1956 Dime
3) 1943 Nickel

 

[surfrat96]

Welcome Bostonmetal! Great finds! Silvers always great to find!

 

[Sixties Kid]

Welcome BostonMetal. I love that old token and other stuff.

Down in the coin cleaning section of the Forum there's a post about cleaning tokens.

Good hunting!

 

[lonewolfe]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!

You took all the cool old patina off the token when you cleaned it

Rule # 1

NEVER clean an old token, coin, button, etc. with anything other than a light rinsing of water.

It destroys the look of the piece, and lowers the value (especially true if a rare piece).

common pieces that will never be worth anything anyway- it doesn't matter (but) be sure you know what you have 1st "before" doing so.

The token you have is not all that rare/valuable but,

I still wouldn't have cleaned it.

HH and keep us posted with any more finds from that area!

Lonewolfe

 

[slow sweeper]

I'll take tokens over clad any day. But take lonewolfe's advice. NEVER clean anything that might have value to it before checking it out.

 

[rusty nails]

Lonewolfe - I think this is a great piece of advice - I did not know what to do with tarnished wheats I had found - Now I am sure what not to do - I think some (including me) get mixed up at first because they look up stuff on coin sites for rarity value face it they go hand in hand - and those coins are usually mint non circ. - not like the patina'd items we dig out of mother earth - anyways .........
Rusty Nails

 

[RI-JenW]

cool finds

 

[treasurekidd]

Nice finds Bostonmetal! I wouldn't clean those dimes either - keep em the way you found em. The only time I even consider trying to clean a found coin is if I can't read the date. Good luck!

 

[allen]

some really cool finds and the token is real nice. keep on digging !!!!