14th-Century Shipwreck Found in Stockholm
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I wonder if they will find coins with it?
I visited the Vasa mentioned in the article a few weeks back. Incredible to have a large original warship nearly intact. They used a different wood surface on fabricated parts, and it is a good 90% plus original. There were coins in the Vasa, but not extensive. ABC News Link
I visited the Vasa mentioned in the article a few weeks back. Incredible to have a large original warship nearly intact. They used a different wood surface on fabricated parts, and it is a good 90% plus original. There were coins in the Vasa, but not extensive. ABC News Link
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<< <i>What I'd love to see is what coins might be in all those wrecked and abandoned ships that were used as landfill in San Francisco. I have to think there might be some cool, rare S-mint stuff in there, even if kinda damaged now... >>
Were the ships those left over from the Gold Rush? If so, they probably wouldn't have had any San Francisco coins. I wondered what happened to all of those masted ships seen blocking up the harbor in old photographs.
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<< <i>I wondered what happened to all of those masted ships seen blocking up the harbor in old photographs. >>
They tended to suffer from the occaisional fire that would sweep through them and burn them down. Since most of those were abandoned in the early years of the gold rush they would have been abandond before the S mint began production. Even for the later ones, these were ships coming INTO San Francisco from other areas. So the chance they would be carrying S mint coins would be slight.