SAN FRANCISCO GOLD COINAGE IN 1857

After reading about the future sale of rare coins and ingots recovered from the S.S. Central America in 2014 by Odyssey Marine, I remembered that years ago I had compiled a chart of the monthly gold coinage figures from the San Francisco Branch Mint for the year in which the S.S. Central America sank, 1857.

The 1857-S Double Eagle, a date and denomination forever linked to the wreck.

*The S.S. Sonora glided out onto the Pacific Ocean on the morning of August 20th from San Francisco harbor bound for Panama. Her passengers, mail and treasure would then travel by rail across the Isthmus to the Atlantic side where the S.S. Central America was docked in Aspinwall.

One final note that might be of interest to readers of The E-Sylum is the fact that a larger number of 1857-S quarter eagles were recovered from the wreck through the efforts of Odyssey Marine in 2014, versus CADG (the discoverer of the wreck). The final 1,200 1857-S quarter eagles minted, were actually delivered from the Coiner on January 9th of 1858.

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