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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;doug444, post: 1972900, member: 38849&quot;]Well, it&#039;s not rare; at this time, the Spanish silver mines in Mexico and Bolivia were cranking out untold tons of silver, using Indian slave labor.&nbsp; Most was minted into 1/2 real through 8 reales coins, then shipped back to Spain (along with gold coins, too).</p><p><br /></p><p>The Atocha (discovered and salvaged by Mel Fisher) was such a ship, but from more than 150 years earlier, and its valuables came from South America, not Mexico.</p><p><br /></p><p>With the big hole, I&#039;d say $7 or $8.&nbsp; Still a highly unusual find, especially for western North Carolina, where you normally dig up English coins, if anything at all.&nbsp; When I lived in Asheville as a kid (1958), there were no commercial metal detectors yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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