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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jwt708, post: 3728351, member: 32619&quot;]How neat! Looks like yours was plated? Am I correct or does the silver appear to be something else like paint? </p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s mine, though there&#039;s no trace of the plating if there ever was any:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]999654[/ATTACH] </p><p>MV130b, Philippines, Subic Bay</p><p><br /></p><p>Paul Cunningham has these as a Maverick in his Military Trade Tokens: Volume 2 Overseas but also says &quot;One source puts these at Subic Bay.&quot; I don&#039;t have my book handy right now to see if yours is listed. Let me know [USER=107016]@VistaCruiser69[/USER] if you&#039;re interested and I&#039;ll dig up my reference when I have time.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mentioned plating above because plated brass was a common overseas, like the one below:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]999661[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m not super proud of that picture, but it does capture the plating wearing off on the high points.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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