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<p>[QUOTE="Kimster, post: 1315493, member: 29093"]I found a 1961 Un Peso (one dollar) Mexican coin while metal detecting. I tried to look it up to see if this coin contained any silver and what that silver content might be. I found that this coin is referred to as the "Mexican Silver Dollar" and appears to be worth around $5 or $10 today. I believe this coin was taken out of circulation in the '80s. Though the Un Peso coins that I found on line had a nice silver color to them, my coin, which was in the ground for an unknown amount of time (I found it in a soccer field and assume it was someone's good luck piece) has a deep brown tone with some of the silver showing through. Generally silver coins that are found in the ground that have a high silver content, such as the US silver coins, come out as bright and shinny as the day they were minted. So I'm assuming that the Un Peso coin contains very little silver. Can anyone tell me anything about this coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kimster, post: 1315493, member: 29093"]I found a 1961 Un Peso (one dollar) Mexican coin while metal detecting. I tried to look it up to see if this coin contained any silver and what that silver content might be. I found that this coin is referred to as the "Mexican Silver Dollar" and appears to be worth around $5 or $10 today. I believe this coin was taken out of circulation in the '80s. Though the Un Peso coins that I found on line had a nice silver color to them, my coin, which was in the ground for an unknown amount of time (I found it in a soccer field and assume it was someone's good luck piece) has a deep brown tone with some of the silver showing through. Generally silver coins that are found in the ground that have a high silver content, such as the US silver coins, come out as bright and shinny as the day they were minted. So I'm assuming that the Un Peso coin contains very little silver. Can anyone tell me anything about this coin.[/QUOTE]
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