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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26711736, member: 86815&quot;]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&#039;t trust paper money. Details below.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1705379[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1705380[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>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 . </p><p><br /></p><p>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 &#039;The John Barry Group&#039; 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.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1705381[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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