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Post by Wm Archer on Jan 23, 2015 21:50:22 GMT 8
My father was career Navy in aviation and we lived at several ait stations during his service. One was Sangley Point, at the bottom of the bay on a spit of land by which all the raw sewage from Manilla passed by when it stormed !
In 1952-54 my father and a couple of his old Navy diver shipmates would check out a the diving barge and head out into the bay towards Corregidor Island. They always did it after a typhoon or major storm. Dad would always have silver pesos and some larger silver dollars that had different writing on them. After two years we left but dad had some of those coins for many years. While we were still there, he would go into Cavite to a silver smith and have the coins made into jewlery and belt buckles. I still have two of his massive belt buckles, one with the Masonic emblem and the other a cartouche of a Parachute rigger and the date of 1946, just before I was born and the first time he was at Sangley and starting diving for silver.
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