Dug Up Two Giant Silver Coins That Had Me Baffled??!! ....Until I got home

[Cool Hand Fluke]

Hunted a completly new area that was infested with Zodiak Tokens. Zodiak tokens are well known to the hunters in the S.F. Bay Area. These things are really discusting, they were at one time used in the peep shows in this area. After I dug them all out, 38 of them, I could concentrate on the older coins I was looking for. During the first hour I poped out a 48-S rosie and a wheatie. After that I get a perfect singnal at 4 inches and dig out this big silver coin! I didn't know what it was, I had never seen one of these before? Half the coin was covered in dirt & stains so I didn't want to clean it or rub it in the field. About 20 minutes later I dig another one! This one is identical to the first one, it was only 1 inch deep. Both are about the size of a Morgan U.S. Dollar! Both were found about 30 feet apart, how did someone loose two of these so far apart? To my surprise I look them up in my foreign coin book and discover that they are 72% silver!

 

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[beez0404]

Looked at all the photos and kept going back to the bells. They are a pretty darn nice find. Congratulations!!

 

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[cjon455]

wow, those pesos are pretty cool!, foreign or not, big silver is always a good thing!!!

 

[I-DIG-IT]

Nice digs.

 

[coinman123]

Wow, That's a lot of silver, even though the coins are only 72% silver.

 

[CoinandRelicMan]

Man thats a awesome hunt site there !! Bet those bells were worn by the "Show-Girls" great finds with bonus foreign silver !

 

[EccentricInTexas]

Awesome Finds!!!

 

[wecoyote]

LOL I was going to ask to see the bottom as I collect them, Let us know. congrats on the great days finds.

Ya, I collect them also. LOL

 

[Rick (Nova Scotia)]

very good day.
Congrats on the BIG silver, and these very nice bells.