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June 24, 2011: The salt water beach would have left these in better condition!

pcgs69pcgs69 Posts: 4,324 ✭✭✭✭
Finally getting caught up with some finds. In June, went back to the stairwell to nowhere in hopes of a little more silver. This area used to be a hiking area and is full of pine trees. This is what this soil does to non silver coins over time. The top two are buffalo nickels and bottom three are wheat cents. They are absolutely eaten up, but all have been identified. Two of the wheats even have dates, but the buffs are toast! I found buffalo nickels at the beach this year that came out in better shape.

Better than bottlecaps though!

FYI, if you're typing in "salt water" make sure you avoid having it as one word because the PCGS bad word filter will ring alarms.

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  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 28,334 ✭✭✭✭✭
    holy salt bath batman, i do hope they get past pcgs image
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Yep, pine forest soil is really bad for coins....always eats them quickly.... Cheers, RickO
  • ZotZot Posts: 825 ✭✭✭
    >> full of pine trees

    Yep. Those look exactly like my non-silver coin finds normally do!
    Some 80%+ of my dug coins look like this.
    -Z
    Minelab: GPX 5000, Excalibur II, Explorer SE. White's: MXT, PI Pro
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