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CENTRAL AMERICA INITIAL FIND IMAGES
Dick Hanscom found this Daily Mail article which has images of some of the recovered items, and a short video. The only coin image is one I grabbed from the video. I assume that's Bob Evans holding one of the coins in a gloved hand. Two of the gold bars have Kellogg & Humbert Assayers stamps.
-Editor
An expedition to bring back the remaining gold from a steamship that sank in 1857 off South Carolina in one of the nation's worst maritime disasters has recovered almost 1,000 ounces of gold - the first gold recovered from the wreck in almost a quarter century.
'While we weren't planning to recover gold so quickly, it did confirm that the site has not been disturbed since it was last visited in 1991 and there is gold remaining,' said Mark Gordon, Odyssey's president and chief operating officer. An expedition that left North Charleston in April is expected to be on the site about 160 miles off the coast until late summer. To read the complete article, see: Treasure hunters recover more than 60 pounds of gold from 157-year-old shipwreck off South Carolina coast (www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2620963/Treasure-hunters-recover-60-pounds-gold-157-year-old-shipwreck-South-Carolina-coast.html)
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