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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TankerSpec, post: 3504910, member: 81193&quot;]I was stationed there from 2010 to 2014. I noticed I would occasionally get silver coins in my change from vending machines on base and started doing research about US coins on Okinawa. It was then that I learned much of what you stated above. Also, thanks to the base exchanges on the 15+ bases there, a lot of silver was still actively circulating on the island. Once I realized this, I started coin roll hunting at the base credit union in 2012, and by the time I left in 2014, I had pulled over 500 silver dimes and 60 silver quarters. I even found over a dozen Mercs and a few Barber dimes, the oldest being a 1907. Through conversations with the tellers, I learned that due to the weight of coin currency, the banks there rarely ship boxes of coins back to the states and vice versa.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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