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More mind-blowing coins from SS Central America

HalfsenseHalfsense Posts: 600 ✭✭✭
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I thought someone would have mentioned this earlier, so I'll post a link to an illustrated news release from California Gold Marketing Group announcing more absolutely incredible California Gold Rush-era coins retrieved during the last recovery expedition to the SS Central America. Prepare to drop your jaw when you see the 1857-S Double Eagle.....

https://pcgs.com/news/san-francisco-mint-coins-ss-central-america-treasure

"If it happens in numismatics, it's news to me....

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  • CoinCrazyPACoinCrazyPA Posts: 2,899 ✭✭✭✭

    Amazing pieces, thanks for sharing.

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  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,006 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 19, 2018 3:21PM

    I thought someone would have mentioned this earlier, so I'll post a link to an illustrated news release from California Gold Marketing Group announcing more absolutely incredible California Gold Rush-era coins retrieved during the last recovery expedition to the SS Central America.

    https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1001955/coinnews-net-ss-central-america-treasure-includes-rare-territorial-gold-coins

  • HalfsenseHalfsense Posts: 600 ✭✭✭

    Thank you, Goldbully. I briefly held the encapsulated '57-S $20 MS67+ when I was at PCGS HQ to meet Dwight Manley and David Hall and take photos and notes about the 2014 recovery coins that had recently been examined by Bob Evans et al, cataloged and certified by PCGS. I have been involved one way or the other with the incredible SS Central America treasure for 18 years, and I'm a happy camper!

    "If it happens in numismatics, it's news to me....
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 18,006 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Halfsense said:
    Thank you, Goldbully. I briefly held the encapsulated '57-S $20 MS67+ when I was at PCGS HQ to meet Dwight Manley and David Hall and take photos and notes about the 2014 recovery coins that had recently been examined by Bob Evans et al, cataloged and certified by PCGS. I have been involved one way or the other with the incredible SS Central America treasure for 18 years, and I'm a happy camper!

    You are a lucky man. That coin is off the charts.

    Thanks for continuing the amazing story of the SS Central America golden treasures.

  • SmudgeSmudge Posts: 9,837 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Hard to talk with my jaw on the floor.

  • SkyManSkyMan Posts: 9,526 ✭✭✭✭✭

    WOWSERS!!!

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  • RogerBRogerB Posts: 8,852 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A good reminder of what coins looked like when they left the US Mints.

  • goldengolden Posts: 10,019 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow,just wow!

  • stevebensteveben Posts: 4,642 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Isn't it great? Imaging seeing all those coins before they set off for sea.

  • lkeneficlkenefic Posts: 8,628 ✭✭✭✭✭

    B)

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  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭

    A sinking ship raises all grades.

    or....something like that.

    or..... hmmmm :/

  • 1Mike11Mike1 Posts: 4,427 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Amazing!

    "May the silver waves that bear you heavenward be filled with love’s whisperings"

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  • oih82w8oih82w8 Posts: 12,630 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited July 20, 2018 5:48AM

    That 1857-S $20 is indeed a stellar piece!

    The 1856-S/S $1 is a fantastic (unattributed) variety!

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  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭

    WOW!! That 1857-S $20 is amazing... such clean surfaces and luster.....a real dream coin...Cheers, RickO

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 29,398 ✭✭✭✭✭

    thats a beautiful thing to see :'(

  • specialistspecialist Posts: 956 ✭✭✭✭✭

    These coins make me into a "has been". I had the chance to buy them all, but was too lowly poor to do so. Yes, these coins are sick. They are worth owning if you have the bread (several million).

    I was fortunate and I did got to buy the coins right beneath them!

  • SeattleSlammerSeattleSlammer Posts: 10,069 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I still don’t understand straight grading these. But I realize it is what it is, so I should get over it.

    That being said, seems like the + grades should all be at the next grade up, possibly with the exception of the double eagle.

  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Wow, "amazing" !!! :)

    Timbuk3
  • KkathylKkathyl Posts: 3,762 ✭✭✭✭✭

    stunning is right

    Best place to buy !
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