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UNITED STATES, New Orleans mint, Seated Liberty half dollar, 1853-O, arrows and rays, with inscribed

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UNITED STATES, New Orleans mint, Seated Liberty half dollar, 1853-O, arrows and rays, with inscribed
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UNITED STATES, New Orleans mint, Seated Liberty half dollar, 1853-O, arrows and rays, with inscribed A in field, NGC Shipwreck Effect SS Republic Inscribed. KM-79. Not only is this a desirable type-coin from the wreck but the additional presence of a hand-carved A on the obverse makes this a unique shipwreck coin. One can imagine a bored person in New Orleans errantly carving this initial into the coin they found in their pocket sometime in the 1850s or 1860s. An extremely small number of SS Republic recovered halves bear some form of "folk art" engraving done by a person (or persons) prior to or during the Civil War. According to Bowers' paper "The SS Republic Shipwreck Excavation Project: the Coin Collection," 829 1853-O halves were recovered from the wreck. Recovered from: S.S. Republic, sunk in 1865 off Georgia
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