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India (British), 1 rupee, Edward VII, 1907, NGC SS City of Cairo (1942).

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India (British), 1 rupee, Edward VII, 1907, NGC SS City of Cairo (1942).
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India (British), 1 rupee, Edward VII, 1907, NGC SS City of Cairo (1942). KM-508. XF with only a faint veneer of seawater effect, gunmetal toning throughout. This is our first offering from this wreck, a casualty of World War II with a romantic backstory in that the captain of the German submarine U-68 that torpedoed her reportedly surfaced next to the survivors in lifeboats and said "Goodnight, sorry for sinking you." Among various other goods, the City of Cairo was carrying 2000 boxes of British India silver rupee coins like this one. When they were salvaged in 2013, in fact the deepest marine salvage in history at 5181m (17,000 feet), the vast majority of these coins were melted down by the British government. Recovered from: S.S. City of Cairo, sunk in 1942 off St Helena Island, west of southern Africa
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