Posted on 08/17/2003 11:57:34 PM PDT by Burkeman1
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:39 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
TAMPA -- Explorers believe they have found the sunken remains of an 1860s steamer that could yield the richest cargo ever recovered from a shipwreck: thousands of gold coins worth as much as $180 million.
The SS Republic was carrying 59 passengers and 20,000 $20 gold coins from New York to New Orleans when it sank in a hurricane off Savannah, Ga., on Oct. 25, 1865, according to newspaper accounts and other historical records.
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