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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Publius2, post: 5195525, member: 105571&quot;]I believe the story of the coin dump is absolutely true.&nbsp; According to my sources, immediately after the war, the US started retrieving the coins and salvaged all but 5 million of them.&nbsp; I believe there was a pretty good inventory of what went into the water, not by numismatic standards but by accounting standards.&nbsp; The &quot;war effect&quot; pesos are pretty well documented, but I know nothing about what an un-conserved coin would look like.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt the coins were packed in cosmoline since it was a pretty hurried effort in advance of the Japanese and why would they care about preservation?&nbsp; This was bullion silver coinage to them, not collectibles.&nbsp; Also, they were probably more concerned about denying them to the Japanese than to future retrieval.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin I posted looks to have been the subject of a cleaning attempt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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