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About time I changed my profile picture. So here is a rather pleasing detecting find I made the other month on a friends permission. Don’t think he was too pleased, although he said otherwise. Treaty period. I’ve since flattened it a little, but there’s a couple of very small bends that might require more experienced hands

I was in Devon this weekend. My eldest got married, so a farmhouse and barns was hired for a few days for the ceremony and celebrations. Just short of a hundred guests including a couple dozen from as far away as New Zealand and a good time was had by all. Seriously hot though. I can report that the M5 was freer than expected today.

nice one, someone else found my gold, was on this farm for about 6 years, found around 109 hammered on one particular field, always thought there would be one there, then some go got permission and found it within 6 weeks, was gutted lol

He says it's real. I said I thought it was nanny Mcphee

at least you never ended up like bonham and moonie

At least if you go out you don't tend to upset yourself or other people by getting pissed at a BBQ , much fun it is though.

What the hell is this? I have never seen anything like it . One of the guys on FB has it. Must be a jeckyl?

Well done Sir...a Gem rescued.

Mostly Cu. However to separate the Cu from the Ag you would need something to break the bonding of the component elements that are sharing their valency electrons. For example oxygen blown thru the molten alloy that would turn the component metals into their oxides which could then be separated. The original assertion was that a coin with some black marks on it was affected by verdigris. The first thing is verdigris is green not black. Green Cu compounds indicate that they are cuprous (valency 2) not Cupric (valency 3) which are black. Verdigris is associated with cuprous Cu compounds as it is green. Any deposits on sterling silver coins evenif they were Cu based would not be verdigris Ag oxides and sulfides are black and these are what you normally find on tarnished (toned) silver coins. I think my chemistry is ok but it has been a long time since I have had anything to do with it. I also contacted a Sterling and Currency in Fremantle a coin dealer who has been in the business for several years on this question for a practical opinion. In their opinion they had never seen verdigris on sterling silver coins. I also found a reference that Cu could leach from very old silver coins but here they were talking about coins several hundreds of years old and I do not think 1917 qualifies for that age.

You would need silk panties and a pert set