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Treasure Auction 33  3-4 May 2023
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Lot 375

Starting price: 700 USD
Price realized: 2000 USD
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USA (Philadelphia Mint), round California gold 50 cents token, 1853, PCGS AU 58, with pinch of gold. BG-430. What coin type can be more iconic coming from the Ship of Gold than an example of the privately-minted California gold tokens that came about due to the Gold Rush? The 2014 Expedition recovered just over a hundred pieces of California gold tokens; this piece is one of just five for the type recovered from the SS Central America. Substantially lustrous, particularly seen on the reverse, with only minor surface friction to indicate any circulation. 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: 1000 - 1500 USD
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