| This coin was found in the eye, on the back side of a sculpted head with hands clasped in prayer, pressed against his chin. It was placed there as a sacrament during the mid 1800's, the head itself is far older perhaps several thousand years old. The coin is a gold slug, it contains a steel coin, and was weighted to .5 an ounce. The Catholic missionaries, who where actually reinstituted Jesuits, were in charge of relocating wealth stored hundreds of years before, to do this they needed supplies, and purchased labor and supplies with gold from the cache they were moving. Instead of wasting the precious metal, they would coat steel coins and use them as currency, thus ripping off the seller of any number of goods. |
