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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;I.L. McDougal, post: 2198856, member: 74599&quot;]Recently while traveling in Texas, I had the opportunity to visit the Mayborn Museum at Baylor University in Waco. The museum, which hosts a variety of historical and scientific exhibits throughout the year, is currently the venue for the Odessy&#039;s SHIPWRECK! Pirates &amp; Treasure display through September 16th.</p><p><br /></p><p>One of the features on display at this exhibit included an assortment of Seated Liberty silver halves recovered from the shipwreck of the SS Republic. What was fascinating (and quite mysterious) about these silver coins was the puzzling condition of each piece. Though one would assume sunken sea-treasure would include layers of grime and salt deposits, these coins are much more of which you would find gracing the display counter of a coin boutique.</p><p><br /></p><p>The passenger and merchant steamship, SS Republic, which sank in 1865, dragged its cargo of silver and gold coins to the bottom of the Atlantic seabed, a depth of roughly 1,700 feet (518 meters). While the precious cargo sat on the seafloor, much of the coinage accumulated the customary amounts of deposits and silt. However, these specimens, which were found within a wax-lined wooden box, are rare and shining survivors of time and shipwreck.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XUb3dd1urVQ/Va4Dxl5bznI/AAAAAAAAAJs/6CYQBlZhNSg/s1600/20150716_194822_resized.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XUb3dd1urVQ/Va4Dxl5bznI/AAAAAAAAAJs/6CYQBlZhNSg/s1600/20150716_194822_resized.jpg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XUb3dd1urVQ/Va4Dxl5bznI/AAAAAAAAAJs/6CYQBlZhNSg/s320/20150716_194822_resized.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p><br /></p><p>The coins, graded by NGC from MS 61 - 64, stand as proud as any coin-show counterpart and it is extremely difficult to imagine that they sat in a box at the ocean floor for over 100 years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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