Old silver Cuba money.......anything here that might be worth more than the silver in these?

guitarwes

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm a lightside guy that got shanghi'd into buying these things. Don't know too much about 'em.

lordmarcovan

Pesos are pretty popular, being dollar sized coins. Once upon a time they might have had a premium over melt, but with higher bullion prices, I'm not so sure (maybe). I'd look 'em up for you (and will later if you remind me and nobody else has in the meantime- I don't have the books handy at the moment). But my Krause catalogs are behind the curve, bullion-wise. If you got 'em for anything less than spot, I'd say you probably did OK. Maybe even good. I can think of worse ways to hold a little bullion.

PS- ditto for the Balboa- and it's kinda neat that you have a proof there. I wouldn't be surprised if that's a Franklin Mint issue. They struck a lot of world proof sets in that era. Don't recoil when you hear "Franklin Mint", as I once did- they're real coins, not medals. The Franklin Mint actually struck some really nice coins under foreign contracts. Then again, I suppose that could also be a US Mint product, as a lot of the Panamanian stuff was or is.