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Found A Bunch Of Coins Buried In Back Yard

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 Posted 07/01/2022  10:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list
This tread is getting to be a huge mystery . Like Sap says : Silver doesn't corrode . Maybe you should bring those things to a dealer that specializes in shipwreck coins They should be able to identify and retest those things once and for all .
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 Posted 07/01/2022  2:27 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add fortcollins to your friends list
If they were found in a garden, mystery solved. My wife said burying bronze cents in a garden changes the color of some types of flowers (like Hydrangeas) to blue and helps kill fungus that can hurt the plants.

It also probably makes it an EPA Superfund site, but we won't go there.
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But OP says he had them tested and they were found to be Silver .
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 Posted 07/01/2022  6:35 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add T-BOP to your friends list
Hey John , If I were to bury all my copper and bronze Lincolns in the ground I bet I can change the color of all the flowers on my block .
@ fortcollins , not knocking what your wife claims .
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 Posted 07/10/2022  09:39 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add wquinn to your friends list
Maybe the coins were in a fire?
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 Posted 07/10/2022  09:45 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add captaincoffee to your friends list
Hydrangeas color is dependent on the ph of the soil. For instance, my plants can produce pink or blue flowers if you change the ph.
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 Posted 08/23/2022  9:32 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add tdziemia to your friends list
Did anyone else think the smallest coin in the group photo looked like a Lincoln Cent?

We haven;t seen any comments on the size of any of these items, which might help with ID.


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 Posted 08/25/2022  08:07 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add panzaldi to your friends list
in any case, whatever they are, you can try and clean these any way you can as it will not affect the value one bit if they are coins. they are so corroded I doubt there is any way to see what they are other than if they are coins you may be able to determine that
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Any ideas on what they are
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Yes it looks like you have a dirt fill error coin
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Any ideas on what they are

As we said a month ago: they are not coins, and are not silver. Whatever you used to test them for silver content, was lying to you when it said they were silver. Silver does not look like this just by getting buried in the ground. Ancient Greek and Roman silver coins still look like uncorroded coins after being buried for 2000 years. Nor does silver look like this if it gets burned in a house fire.

They are either electrical box knock-out tabs, or some such similar round metal discs.
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Yes probably core drilling metal disc off cuts, nope those would have small middle hole.
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