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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jim Dale, post: 7853383, member: 100459&quot;]My father served in the U.S. Navy during WWII in the South Pacific.&nbsp; He was on Submarine Duty there.&nbsp; He told me that his boat and another one had been ordered to the Philippines to help the government take control of their bold and other precious coins in their treasury.&nbsp; After a great many suggestions, the decision was made to drop the treasury in a deep area of the ocean.&nbsp; The problem was that in 1944-45 and later, the treasury was so deep that it was beyond the grasp of the Philippine or United States.&nbsp; As my memory serves me (probably wrong), my father and the other people that knew where the treasury was, were under orders by Military and governments to not tell anyone where it was.&nbsp; I don&#039;t remember all the details, but after my father retired and the treasury was finally recovered, my father got a letter declassifying the actions of the Navy.&nbsp; That was sometime in the 1970&#039;s.&nbsp; He finally told me what had happened to the Philippine Treasury.</p><p>I wonder if any of the coins that were in the deep water was pitted like the coin above.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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