Silver Streak Continues - Nasty Barber Quarter!

[Al Bundy]

A third consecutive silver producing hunt is in the books. This time I walked away with a 1894 Barber quarter, which is the oldest barber coin I’ve found and the crustiest! It was so corroded that I thought it was a copper coin when I pulled it out of the earth. Using a few rounds of baking soda rubs and some aluminum foil “electrolysis” I was able to remove enough crud to get a date, and it seems there’s some decent detail remaining on the coin. I’ll continue to work on it a little more. Hoping to get a barber half soon!




AB

 

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[Professor of Engineering]

Still a nice find!

 

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[PullTabPete]

Nice find, the first silver ring I ever found was corroded so black I couldn't tell it was silver. I used the aluminum foil method a bunch of times and eventually it cleaned up nice.