Cleaned up beach silver

[Stillburning]

I got out on the beach last Sunday and Monday, an area had been stripped of about 2 foot of sand that was last uncovered in 2016. At that time I found a lot of coins including some old silver, it is fairly small area but there is a stream that runs down the shingle at the top of the beach and dissapears under the sand but seems to have cut a trench in the underlying clay that traps the coins.

I had the usual mixture of modern and pre decimal back to George V with a couple of sixpences and a threepence, I had been talking to another detectorist who had been hitting the same area of me and who had also found silver and said "they will shine up nicely".

I decided to give it a try and gave my sixpences and threepence a zap of electrolysis and a polish with brasso - shiney! Well I thought no point keeping my other blackened coins in a drawer and gave them all the same treatment. End result was predictably dependant on the condition of the coin and the silver content but there was more detail visible on all the coins.

Interestingly two of the coins (in the close up) that I thought were Victorian I now think are George II or IV, the other photos are random before and all of the coins after cleaning.

Thanks for looking

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[fred]

Well done. It is amazing how much silver there still is on beaches when conditions are right.

[Stillburning]

I wish I could stayed another couple of days, the wind was still blowing and the other detectorist who I usually see when I am down there has had plenty of gold off that beach!