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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 3127452, member: 10461&quot;]<font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">...</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><b>The</b> silver dollars are Spanish Milled Dollars, and they were struck in Mexico City at the end of the colonial era.&nbsp; Later, when he reads about them, the homeowner learns that older Spanish Colonial coins like this circulated in the United States right up to the time of the Civil War, and extensively so in the South.&nbsp; So though their presence in an early Confederate hoard is initially a surprise, it turns out to not be such an anomaly after all.</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">The Spanish Milled Dollars in the Orangeburg Hoard are more heavily circulated than most of the rest of the coins in the box.&nbsp; They are of course several decades older than the U.S. coins.&nbsp; The newest of them, however - the 1804 - is quite nice.&nbsp; Beneath the tarnish from its time underground, it looks something like this:</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><br /></span></font></font></p><p>[ATTACH=full]797216[/ATTACH]</p><p><font face="Tahoma"><font size="3"><span style="color: #000000">(*I &quot;stole&quot; the photo above from [USER=7539]@RomanTheRussian[/USER], for illustrative purposes.&nbsp; Hopefully he won&#039;t mind my showing off one of <a href="https://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/collectors-showcase/world-coins/8-reales-madness/album/478" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.pcgs.com/SetRegistry/collectors-showcase/world-coins/8-reales-madness/album/478" rel="nofollow">his beauties</a>.)</span></font></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5">So there are hundreds of silver coins in the hoard.</font></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5">But not all of the coins in the hoard are silver.</font></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5">And the homeowner has not yet discovered nor opened the 1858 patent Mason jars.</font></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5"><br /></font></span></font></p><p><font face="Georgia"><span style="color: #006600"><font size="5">...</font></span></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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