$500,000 in silver!!!

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Just had to share this photograph I came across, Back in the 50's Binions Horseshoe Casino had some great game winning prizes. This supposedly is half a million in silver dollars, would of been a sight to see!!!

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Just had to share this photograph I came across, Back in the 50's Binions Horseshoe Casino had some great game winning prizes. This supposedly is half a million in silver dollars, would of been a sight to see!!!

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At today's price of silver that would be well over 11 Millions dollars, it would be nice to find a couple of those stacks of coins today with my detector!!!
 

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OMG if I won that - I would have to run out and buy one of every MD made and start comparing rayrayvegas!
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Jason in Enid

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Just had to share this photograph I came across, Back in the 50's Binions Horseshoe Casino had some great game winning prizes. This supposedly is half a million in silver dollars, would of been a sight to see!!!

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It can't be. 500,000 silver dollars would weigh over 31,000 pounds (Av not troy). That's the weight of an entire semi truck with trailer. That table can't support anything close to that weight.
 

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