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1856-S $20 Liberty Gold Double Eagle Shipwreck SS Central America Full Serif, Bold Left S PCGS MS62
Features of the 1856-S $20 Liberty Gold Double Eagle Shipwreck SS Central America Full Serif, Bold Left S PCGS MS62:Minted in the year 1856US – San Francisco MintMS62 Graded by PCGSPCGS Population: 4On a dark and stormy night, October 3rd, 1857, the S.S. Central America, bound to New York from Havana, battled the high seas during a Category 2 hurricane. The massive 280-foot, three-masted, side-wheeled, wooden-hulled steamship was hammered repeatedly by the storm, and through fractures in the hull, the water rose higher and higher inside the vessel. Crew and passengers bailed water all through the night, only to have mother nature reign supreme and take the mighty ship under the surface. That night 425 passengers and over three tons of California Gold Rush Gold sank to the deepest, darkest depths of Davy Jones Locker somewhere off the Carolinas. The precious metal cargo on board consisted primarily of thousands of the Twenty Dollar Gold Double Eagle Liberty “Coronet head” coins value…
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