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1848 Seated Liberty Dime PCGS VF-25 From The S.S. Central America With Gold Pinch

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money Start Price:1.00 USD Estimated At:625.00 - 850.00 USD
1848 Seated Liberty Dime PCGS VF-25 From The S.S. Central America With Gold Pinch
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Lot 7.
1848 Seated Liberty Dime PCGS VF-25 From The S.S. Central America With Gold Pinch

n August of 1857 some 477 passengers left the Vallejo Street Wharf in San Francisco headed from the California Gold Rush back to the east coast. Their journye began first by steamship to Panama, then over the isthmus by railroad– and finally aboard the S.S. Central America steamship headed for New York. Little did these adventurers on board the "Ship of Gold" realize they were headed toward a watery grave in the Atlantic Ocean.

On that tragic day in September of 1857, the mail steamship S.S. Central America was battered by a fierce hurricane off the coast of the Carolinas. Within a few hours, over 420 passengers and crew members plus the ship full of gold treasure sank to a watery grave where they remained buried beneath the Atlantic Ocean for the next 150 years.
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