It's SilverMike Saturday! Post your Silver coin......

Hey all! In light of it being Saturday and having @SilverMike in the "house", I dub thee day, SilverMike Saturday. A place to show off your Silver coins. Won't you please post yours also?
Here's one of more recent wins. Mi scusi. someone ate part of mine.

 

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Mi scusi.. but that's an Incomplete Planchet. That part of the coin was never there so it's impossible for someone to take a bite out of it

Here's a 1964 silver coin from my collection

 

This one of 1.3 million silver coins minted in WW2 as the Allies wanted middle eastern support with oil but the owners of the oil fields didn't trust paper money. Details below.





On the night of August 28, 1944, the American Liberty ship SS John Barry on passage to Saudi Arabia loaded with a secret cargo of silver. Unfortunately for the Barry and her crew, the Nazi U-boat U-859 detected the ship and successfully torpedoed her, sending her to the bottom of the Arabian Sea along with millions of silver riyal coins .

Due to the ship#s depth (8,500 feet) the wreck was left undisturbed until a consortium of Americans assembled a hodgepodge of recovery components primarily scavenged from the oil and gas industry. After winning a bid to recover the wreck from the US government, the consortium, dubbed 'The John Barry Group' successfully located the Barry in 1994 and used a grab to bring up 1,300,000 (17 tons) of silver riyals before they ceased operations.

 

One of my favorites.