Corrosion Damage to a Silver Coin
Sobol
I. G. Erusalimchik1 , M. N. Filippov2, and I. V. Murav’eva2
1 Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics, and Automatics (Technical University),
pr. Vernadskogo 78, Moscow, 117454 Russia
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2 Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (Technological University), Leninskii pr. 4, Moscow, 117936 Russia
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Received December 24, 2003
Abstract — The surface of a silver coin “Sobol’” is investigated by local x-ray fluorescence analysis and mea-suring the electrode potential. It is shown that the coin blackening is associated with the formation of silver sulfide Ag2S.