January 4 2019 by
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Ready for another treasure story? How about 80 metric tons of lost gold? That’s 2,572,059 troy ounces. Figured at $ 1,300 an ounce, the missing treasure’s value is $ 3,343,676,700. This is reported online by the Daily Mail, a British newspaper. This treasure doesn’t even involve pirates, Spanish treasure fleets, or Russian military payrolls. But […]
November 22 2018 by
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What do you imagine when you think about treasure recovered from sunken Spanish galleons? Silver bars? Pieces of eight? Many coin collectors dream of these. Imagine making them the basis of your business. That is what the Florida firm of Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC does. Results of its Nov. 2-3 public sale and Nov. 5 […]
November 12 2018 by
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What do you imagine when you think about treasure recovered from sunken Spanish galleons? Silver bars? Pieces of eight? Many coin collectors dream of these. Imagine making them the basis of your business. That is what the Florida firm of Daniel Frank Sedwick LLC does. Results of its Nov. 2-3 public sale and Nov. 5 […]
October 26 2018 by
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Treasure stories always catch my attention. The latest one that I spotted has a twist to it that you might not expect. What might the twist be? Well, there is no wildly inflated value associated with the coins that have been found. In fact, there is no value given at all for artifacts uncovered in […]
July 11 2018 by
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Tis the season of SS Central America treasure. Step by step the California Gold Marketing Group LLC has been revealing the inventory of the 2014 recovery from the 1857 wreck. However, the news doesn’t stop there. Scotsman Auction Company opens its July 27 Midwest Summer Sale Auction in St. Charles, Mo., with some goodies that […]
July 10 2018 by
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The SS Central America is the sunken treasure wreck that just keeps on giving. From the latest release of the California Gold Marketing Group LLC of Brea, Calif., we see a veritable census of Territorial gold issues from the Gold Rush. The ship sank in a hurricane off the coast of North Carolina with so […]