Silver Dollars found in a trench-Photos Added

Here's a scan of most of the coins.  The first scan shows the front side of the coins.  The second scan shows the reverse side. The coin position is the same between the scans. 

Front Scan

scoutjim99:

Edited by Hasselblad - 04 Apr 2007 at 4:15am

That will take some reserach , but if authentic you Have some money there.  The flowing hair looks suspicious but if it is Authentic Est imate $15,000-$30,000 rough estimate the rim on the coin is making me a bit nervous. if I have your permision to copy these photos and take them somwhere else I can try to get an answer for you

Also if you coulod provide biiger pictures of each coin individually that would help and also circuference of the coins as well as weight , because I do believe you may have some counterfiets there

scoutjim99:

Thanks for the info and the private message. 

hello!!! this Francis from the Philippines. Curt, we share the same bad luck! if our 1795 silver dollar coin is a Chinese counterfeit, (so they say!)Chinese must have a good coin die cast engravers and better coin pounding machine. I've send you my email ads privately if you want a pix of my coin,reply to my email ads. i took a hi resolution pix of my coin on a Caliper. so high you can magnify it 50 times w/o pixels. big file to be uploaded here. yours and mine are both in good condition. mine is unclean. approx. 26.5 grams
Addendum: Dec.6
one of the coin dealer in your country replied to my inquiry yesterday, that it is non-genuine and of no value. i still don't believe him, for the reason that, this 1795 silver dollar coin we both have was circulating here in my country during the commonwealth regime of America, 1957. My dad was once the finance and supply officer of the U.S. Naval Base at Subic Base, Olongapo, Philippines. I can still remember, (i was then 7 Y/o)when my dad use to bring us to American Legion Club,at Subic Base,Olongapo City. These coins are in circulation. U.S. Navy Servicemen use to give this coin as tips to bar girls when they run out of peso coins. thus this means U.S. servicemens are fooling the filipinos during those years. These coin almost have the same dimension and quality of pounding of our 1 peso commonwealth coins and is honored during that years. The only difference is, the engravings of: COMMONWEALTH OF THE PHILIPPINES on one side and UNITED STATE OF AMERICA on the other side.
Does'nt it hurts, we, Filipinos, were being fooled by U.S. servicemens during those year?. I am just giving you a brief history of how these coin circulates in my country during those years.
Whoever own that coin, must have been here in my country during those years. In my opinion, that's how he acquired that coin.
I have taken a high resolution pix of our 1795 silver dollar coin with my old Zenit E Russian made cam with the right amount of light. after development of the film, to my surprise there's a hidden mark right on top of the head of the eagle side of the coin. something like a hologram (zoom the hi-resolution pix that i will send you till you see the hidden mark). you can only see it on the right angle on the screen of your PC. i am not sure if it is a hologram. if you want to see what i am saying, send me an E-mail, i will send you a copy of the pix. i like to hear your opinion if it is a hologram. as you can see, the rim dots at the middle of I and T of the UNITED is missing. one more thing,the 8th rim dot before the UNITED is not alligned. it must have been done for the purpose of security.
this coin is too good to be a Chinese counterfeit!!!

Edited by comhytek - 05 Dec 2008 at 11:21am