FINALLY Silver coins in the Philippines

[raweppler]

I went to a church located in Cebu, Philippines to see if I can find any older coins. There is a grassy section near a convent by the church where I got permission to search. When I turned on the detector and made my first swing thought something was wrong; it was making a beep to 3 every swing. I settled on a signal and found a 25 Centavo coin. I kept digging up shallow coins left and right. I got a nice twang and was hoping for some silver and the SE said was about 5 inches; which was deeper than the other signals. Out came a 1917 silver 10 Centavos It is slightly smaller than a dime.

It was like the pennies I found the other day, USA on one side and Filipinas on the other. A few feet away I dug up the 1919 coin. I also found 2 of the copper pennies; 1944 and a 194?. Still cleaning them.

I hope to now add a Peso silver soon!!

 

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[size=large]congrats on the finds and finally getting some silver.

HH[/size]

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Nice !!!

 

[sgoss66]

CONGRATS, raweppler! Glad to see you can still find the silver, in the tropical paradise! Nice coin!

Steve

 

[TwoRivers]

Those are some nice finds

 

[drkp88]

Nice find!
Bruce

 

[grumpymedic]

Wow that's a really nice coin!! I don't know much about centavos..was it minted in the states?

 

[raweppler]

Wow that's a really nice coin!! I don't know much about centavos..was it minted in the states?

I believe this is the case as some of them have a s mint mark for San Fransisco.

Rick

 

[Big Boys Hobbies]

Very cool! Congrats!

 

[heavymetal]

Great find indeed!

If you know where to look...i guess you'll find it

a tourist guide here in the Philippines showed me this from a tour

 

[TokenDigger]

Nice find ! They were most definitely minted in the US. The US Mint has made a lot of coins for other countries. Way to go and HH!