Milk Spots Silver Coins

These white spots can sometimes develop on a variety of modern silver bullion coins from around the world including american silver eagles.

Milk spots silver coins.

White spots on modern silver coins. When a coin is manufactured one of the final processes that it goes through is annealing a system of baking and cooling the coin in order to prevent the silver from becoming brittle. Milk spots are those obnoxious thin white marks that arise on reflective silver coins caused by the annealing process. Milk spots and fingerprints are a silver collectors bane.

Thank you to realruler2112 for recommending this video. Many collectors of modern silver bullion coins are familiar with the occurrence of white spots or milk spots as they are often called in numismatic vernacular. In this video we talk about milk spotting on silver bullion coins. In this video we talk about the white spots or milk spots that are found on some government silver bullion like the maple leaf and american eagle.

Milk spots can occur on both bullion and collector coins struck in proof and burnished uncirculated finishes but they are substantially more common on bullion silver coins with 999 or higher purity and are not seen on older coins with alloys such as pre 1964 u s.