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  • Shipwreck's Coins Are Very Rare

    05/14/2008 10:43:27 PM PDT · by fishhound · 32 replies · 141+ views
    AOL/AP ^ | 2008-05-14 | ALAN SAYRE,
    NEW ORLEANS (May 14) - A steamship that sank off the Louisiana coast during an 1846 storm has produced a trove of rare gold coins, including some produced at two largely forgotten U.S. Mints in the South, coin experts say. Last year, four Louisiana residents salvaged hundreds of gold coins and thousands of silver coins from the wreckage of the SS New York in about 60 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico, said David Bowers, co-chairman of New York-based Stack's Rare Coins. "Some of these are in uncirculated or mint condition," Bowers said, predicting the best could bring...