Who Else Has Shipwreck Treasure?
SilverProofQuarter1883
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I have been really into Shipwreck coins. The stories behind them really capture the imagination; If only these coins/ artifacts could tell their story. Let’s see some shipwreck treasure!
Post Your Shipwreck Coins!!!
I will start with my lot:
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I don't have any, but I wish I did! Very fascinating.
I also like reading about treasures/hoards found on land. Like the "Saddle Ridge Hoard", or that one on a Kentucky farm a couple of years ago.
Thanks for sharing.
I love a good shipwreck story!
From the 123 DE’s found in the San Francisco Mint Box (“the aquarium”), five were graded PL by NGC and this one crossed and stickered as the highest graded prooflike Lib $20 for the entire series. The surfaces are spectacular!
I don't have any pictures, but have an 8 reale cob from the Concepcion, sunk in 1641.
I bought Bowers book on coin hoards, the first numismatic literature of any kind I've bought in a long time not related to my interests.
It's a good read.
A few years ago, I bought an 1857-S $20 in PCGS AU-58 CAC sticker from the S.S. Central America.
Tragic stories.
I just shared these elsewhere. The coins aren't shipwreck, but the gold they're minted from is...
I have a lot, none US though. Nice 1715 Plate fleet! I don’t have one of those yet.
I'm BACK!!! Used to be Billet7 on the old forum.
Australia: 1877-S gold “Shield” sovereign of Queen Victoria, from the RMS Duoro shipwreck
PCGS MS62. Cert. #49106726.
Numista-24198, Krause-Mishler-6, Friedberg-11, Spink-3855.
.917 gold, .2355 oz. Diameter: 21.5 mm. Weight: 7.98 g. Mintage: 1,590,000.
Ex-Heritage Auction 3118, Lot 30083, 15 August 2024. Prior provenance to the James D. Wolfensohn Collection of Australian sovereigns.
This coin was struck at the Sydney mint in 1877 and was part of the cargo of the British Royal Mail steamship Douro, which sank in a nighttime collision with the Spanish ship Yrurac Bat off Cape Finisterre near the Spanish and Portuguese coast, on the evening of April 1, 1882.
All of Duoro’s passengers and 32 of her crew were saved, but the captain and five of his officers- and the ship’s treasure of gold coins and bullion- sank with Douro in 1,500 feet of water. 53 people aboard the Spanish ship also perished when it too sank.
The wreck was found in 1993 and salvage operations were completed by 1996. There were some 28,000 gold coins brought up from the Douro wreck. Most were gold sovereigns, but there were also some rare Brazilian and Portuguese coins.
Collector since 1976. On the CU forums here since 2001.