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Zacatecas, Mexico, cap-and-rays 8 reales, 1829 AO, NGC Shipwreck Effect / SB Pulaski Shipwreck Label

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Zacatecas, Mexico, cap-and-rays 8 reales, 1829 AO, NGC Shipwreck Effect / SB Pulaski Shipwreck Label
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Zacatecas, Mexico, cap-and-rays 8 reales, 1829 AO, NGC Shipwreck Effect / SB Pulaski Shipwreck Label, with display box, very rare provenance. DP-Zs07; KM-377.13. SB Pulaski shipwreck coins are among the earliest and rarest of all US shipwreck recoveries. The steam packet Pulaski, carrying 187 passengers and crew, left the port of Charleston, South Carolina on June 14, 1838, bound for Baltimore, Maryland. Around 11 PM that night, off the coast of North Carolina, the starboard boiler exploded. Some were killed in the blast, others were lost as the ship quickly went down; around 59 survivors were saved. Unlike the other larger US shipwreck recoveries, where big quantities of coins from commercial shipments were recovered, coins from the Steamboat Pulaski were wholly passenger and crew "pocket change." The find uncovered Mint State US gold coins, a number of US silver coins (mostly half dollars), and many foreign coins that were US legal tender at the time, like this one. This AU piece bears patches of saltwater corrosion across the obverse while the reverse looks practically untouched, save for a few spots of dark encrustation. Fully detailed despite some central strike weakness and overall a choice example from this shipwreck. With wooden SB Pulaski display box. Recovered from: S.B. Pulaski, sunk in 1838 off North Carolina
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