RARE
1860-S $10 EAGLE S.S. REPUBLIC NGC AU58 Click on Coin Image to
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Rare
1860-S $10 SS Republic NGC AU58 - $38,900.00
1860-S $10
Republic, NGC AU58. Here is a near-Mint State, AU58
shipwrecked 1860-S Eagle from the SS Republic. The coin
comes with a box and blue tag showing its provenance.
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The surfaces of the piece are clean for the grade with
no notable abrasion marks that might require individual
description, nor are there any other problems. Yellow
and greenish gold predominate on the obverse, while
the reverse adds light rose gold on the devices and
at each side at the periphery. The strike is strong
with full details on the centers of the stars, Liberty’s
hair, the eagle’s neck, and the area to the lower
left of the shield.
The coin, probably “passenger gold” is
one of three recovered from the Republic and certified
by NGC. During the California Gold Rush, the SS Republic,
then called the Tennessee, was used to transport miners
to the shore of Panama and Nicaragua to travel to
the California gold fields. For several years the
ship was used to carry immigrants to the Unites States
from Mexico. When the Civil War began, the ship was
docked in New Orleans. She was seized by the Confederates
and used as a blockade runner. After the capture of
New Orleans by the North, she became the flagship
of Admiral Farragut for the end of the Mississippi
Campaign.
In 1864, she resumed transporting passengers and cargo
from New York to New Orleans. The next year she sank
in a hurricane off the coast of Savannah. In 2003, the
Odyssey Republic Expedition, after twelve years of searching,
discovered and began the recovery of the ship’s
treasure. The cargo had been untouched for 138 years
approximately 100 miles off the coast of Georgia. “Lost
Gold of the Republic,” a film produced by National
Graphic, documents the discovery and recovery. The coins
recovered from the SS Republic are labeled as such by
NGC and its affiliate NCS not only to note the historic
significance of the coins, but also to indicate that
these coins have been professionally conserved.
