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Great Britain (London, England), gold sovereign, Victoria (young head), 1855, with WW incuse, NGC XF

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Great Britain (London, England), gold sovereign, Victoria (young head), 1855, with WW incuse, NGC XF
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Great Britain (London, England), gold sovereign, Victoria (young head), 1855, with WW incuse, NGC XF 45 / Pewabic, very rare provenance. Sp-3852D; KM-736.1. The SS Pewabic, launched in 1863, was a Civil War-era freighter that traveled between Lake Superior and Lake Erie while hauling passengers and cargo (typically copper ingots from the northern mines). On August 9, 1865, the Pewabic's sister ship SS Meteor collided with the Pewabic, which sank shortly thereafter with the loss of 100 to 125 passengers and crew. In 1917 many of the copper ingots were salvaged from the wreck along with artifacts and coins. A further salvage operation in 1974 by Busch Oceanographic Equipment Co. recovered more artifacts along with the purser's safe, which, true to the purser's word, contained less than $50 in paper money and no coins. The very few coins recovered from the Pewabic represent the rarest American shipwreck coins a collector can own when compared to those from the much more available SS Central America, SS Brother Jonathan, and SS Republic. Lustrous gold sovereign with minor surface friction from circulation. Recovered from: S.S. Pewabic, sunk in 1865 off Thunder Bay Island, Michigan
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