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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor, post: 1308517, member: 5454&quot;]Thompson also wrote his own book.</p><p>What I found most interesting was the detailed accounts of the 1857 sinking.</p><p>I looked on e-bay for a recovered 1857-S double eagle.&nbsp; Those suckers are going for $9,000 and up slabbed with SS Central America pedigree.</p><p>At the Boston ANA exhibit they had big honking blocks of gold salvaged from the shipwreck.</p><p>The stuff recovered from 8,000 feet deep also included newspapers and letters still readable found in unopened steamer trunks.&nbsp; Silk shirts still neatly folded were packed in trunks and they even brought up a cigar in perfect condition.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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