Spanish Colonial Junk Silver: What Would You Do?

Wow, when was this? I know that appreciation for and the value of 8's has risen over the years (and I do have an old Max G Mehl catalog from the 1920s where portrait 8s are listed as being worth 75 cents)but it just strikes me as amazing to think of there being bags of such coins, not to mention being allowed to sift through them.

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In the mid 70's to mid 80's I was able to look through circulated bulk lots of anywhere from 100-500 8s at a time and pick out the ones I wanted. Pillars were $50-$100, busts were in the 12-25 dollar range and resplandores were $7-$8 apiece. I was working full time in a grocery store, single and buying all the 8s I could afford. I sold off a large portion of my "accumulation" to get the down payment for my first house but other than that I haven't really sold any of the coins. It was a fun period. I hope to have time to go into the vault some afternoon (I work at the bank but never find the time) and pull out a gaggle of resplandores and check them all for fakes, now that I am a student of the "Swamperbob School of Fake Coin Detection". When I was buying them I rang them for the silver sound and glanced at the edges but didn't really check that carefully. I am hoping I will find some fakes, they are more interesting than some of the real ones.

Resplandores are "cap and ray" style 8s from Mexico 1823-1897 (with a few breaks). Pillar dollars are "Columnarios" and Bust or Portrait dollars are called "Bustos". One thing collecting these has motivated me to do is learn to read Spanish because many of the dealers speak only Spanish and some of the auction catalogs and reference books I have are in Spanish.
Most of the hoards I went through were either coming out of Mexico/Central America or from China and the Phillipines. Metal detectors were becoming popular and lots of hoards were being uncovered in Mexico that were buried during the revolution and never recovered by the deceased owners.