Bracelet with 3 coins on it

[DARKCYDE]

I didn't dig this.
It was in a $5 box lot I got at an auction.
I can't really find any info on it.
Does anybody have any idea what it may be?
Has "VS23" stamped on the inside.

 

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[Loco-Digger]

1944 10 Centavos coin, there's one up for sale. This was probably brought home by a soldier in WW2 from the Philippines.

1944D Ten Centavos and 1945D Twenty Centavos

 

[2Minnesota]

Just a thought but could be that the coins date '41 & 44 represent when a soldier was in the Phillipines during WWII. The VS23 could be his initials or part of a group he was with over there. Cool find! Was it that shiny when you got it?

 

[BosnMate]

I was in the Philippines in 1956, and brought home several of those. The Japanese had invasion money, and that had to be replaced when we took the islands back.
Remember, the Philippines belonged to the United States before and after WWII, The Japanese owned them from 1942 until 1944. I think by 1956 the Islands
had been given their independence, but they were still using that money. It's coin silver just like our US coins before '64.

 

[DARKCYDE]

I haven't cleaned it at all. It was already this shiny.

 

[Subterranean]

VS 23 is an anti-submarine squadron started in the mid 1950's? Cool bracelet for $5.00!!!! Sub

 

[cudamark]

VS 23 is an anti-submarine squadron started in the mid 1950's? Cool bracelet for $5.00!!!! Sub

Yup, my dad was the C.O. of that squadron back in '67-8.