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Treasure Auction 33  3-4 May 2023
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Lot 369

Starting price: 1500 USD
Price realized: 3000 USD
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USA (Philadelphia Mint), gold $2-1/2 Classic Liberty "quarter eagle," 1836, script 8, PCGS VF 30, with pinch of gold. One of just five examples of this type recovered during the 2014 Expedition to the SS Central America. Fairly circulated yet retaining ample detail in Liberty's hair curls and across the eagle, with rich and bright golden surfaces all over. Housed in a special PCGS slab with a pinch of gold (about 1.5 grams) from the shipwreck, the label hand-signed by chief scientist Bob Evans, also with promotional cardboard box and certificate from PCGS. Recovered from: S.S. Central America, sunk in 1857 in deep water off North Carolina


Estimate: 2000 - 3000 USD
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