Andrea Doria Shipwreck Money
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Ok so it’s not coins, it’s bills, so this probably won’t last very long, but I saw it on IG going for $250 each and thought it was super cool that PCGS had encapsulated these singed shipwreck bills from the bottom of the ocean!
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Shipwreck artifacts are fascinating. Nice display.
$250 is a good price for the "B" grade IMO.
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Another Andrea Doria survivor....sounds like the premise of a Seinfeld episode. Neat artifact....I had a few of the gambling tokens from the Costa Concordia. You could see the sea water effects on the tokens. They originally gold in color the salt sort of washed out their shine.
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I would buy that
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What was in the steerage safe?
@291fifth said:
Sea water
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What's IG? Instagram?
@Floridafacelifter So what's the scoopy doop on the thickness of the holder? Is it in an inert gas to keep the note from going poof! Inquiring minds want to know. Peace Roy
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Yep you got it!
The Andrea Doria is supposed to be a super challenging dive. Deep cold water with lots of current.
@Floridafacelifter - Very cool artifacts indeed and the price is good!
Yes, and one of my favorites!
I have a $1 US Silver certificate and an Italian 1000 Lire note from the Andrea Doria. The DVD that comes with each note is fascinating- it's a documentary about the recovery of the safe and its subsequent opening on national TV. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't watched it already. Here are mine:
No gas. It's a solid very hard plastic of some sort. The note & document are sandwiched in-between and they are cranked together with 4 bolts. There is a seal around the seam with a special PCGS logo tape. It's 1 3/8" thick and pretty heavy. Not at all cheap.
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That's pretty cool! The shipwreck is near the coast of my hometown.
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@ms70 Well that solves my query. Peace Roy
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I remember the documentary well. Must have been 1981 or so. I watched so intently as a child, waiting for all the treasures to pour out of that safe. But, alas...only decaying paper money.
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I did my senior project for mechanical engineering on recovering the Andrea Doria off the bottom of the ocean. These dollars are pretty cool!
Coin vault has them for $199
Interesting. Those silver certificates certainly went through tough conditions - and a long journey....Cheers, RickO
Just took a look at that. They have free shipping too! But I'd want to see the one they're sending me in advance.
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I will have to post a photo of mine….I am pleased.
I just gave a Zoom IBNS meeting titled "Banknotes Salvaged, Looted, or Lost from Shipwrecks". It mainly covers only banknote shipments from the printer to the country of issue. I recorded 34 ships with 67 different banknote issues running from 1840 to 1979. The article runs about 34 pages, so the IBNS Journal that will cover this starts in issue 2 this year & runs through issue 4.
Here's a Seychelles note salvaged from the 1979 Aeolian Sky. There was 60,000,000 of these on board.
I too have a silver certificate and Italian 1000 LIre note entombed in the heavy Lucite, attributed by PCGS. Interestingly I found other Italian notes in Lucite with COAs like mine BUT no PCGS attributions. So, there is no PCGS tape along the edge which would make insertion of a different note rather easy....
Any notes from the Titanic?
I'm in Oklahoma, so of course I recorded an Oklahoma note salvaged from the Titantic!
https://youtu.be/vbhcLItkAeQ
Here's the YouTube video of the IBNS Zoom presentation, "Banknotes Salvaged, Looted, or Lost from Shipwrecks". It runs a little over 58 minutes. Sound quality could be better, but the images & info turned out fine.
I have a framed set of three banknotes that are from the Doria Project , the very interesting thing is this framed item is Numbered 3/100 most were not numbered why I really don’t know , the last one I saw that was numbered went through a Christie’s auction in 2008 about 15 years ago it was 57/100 .
Anyways I will be letting this item go eventually but it anyone know anything about why they were Numbered would be interested in knowing the reason and who did it
The DB Cooper notes, also certified by PCGS, have turned out to be an even more popular commodity. They are harder to find and sell today for considerably more than they did when first appeared on the market.
The Andrea Doria currency can still be found fairly easily and at reasonable prices. I presume that the supply of these was larger to begin with than the DB Cooper $20s.