Silver Type Nugget, What Is It?

Looks like the old US Treasury silver "shot or buttons" they used in exchange for Silver Certificates.

Here was the instructions on how to do it back in the 1960's when the program was still going.
https://www.usmint.gov/learn/histor...lver-bullion

Here is a photo of one style I had not seen:
https://www.coinworld.com/news/prec...ranules.html

How I've usually seen it...


You can still find silver bullion like this (likely made from dropping molten silver into cool water) at many bullion shops like APMEX https://www.apmex.com/product/24291...ate-exchange

You can turn them into cash by selling them to a bullion dealer. I'd probably keep them awhile and watch the silver price, wait until it gets back up over $45/ounce, that could be years or months, who knows, but if you aren't in a hurry then wait, or turn them into something a bit more liquid like a silver bar or American Silver Eagles or Canadian Maple Leaf rounds. You will not get full value as they would need need to be re-assayed, to tell the silver amount and purity. Currently an ounce of these sells around $23.00 probably buy rate is 20% less.

Many years ago I refined maybe 30 ounces of silver from electronic scrap. I melted it and poured the molten metal into a bucket filled with deionized (pure) water. The metal formed a mixture of teardrop-shaped shot and shell-like random forms. The pieces were all bright silver in color and very attractive. The OP's nuggets look similar in form but appear to have some surface impurities.