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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26671774, member: 86815&quot;]I guess this is a private minting aimed at a wide audience.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1701707[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1701708[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I was fortunate enough to be able to buy this last year at below melt value and before silver took off. I made an offer which was accepted as it had been on an Ebayer&#039;s site for some time and I guess the cracked plastic put people off. The coin has a piece of placer gold added so I guess this had to be done by hand as all would be different.</p><p>I like the Global Certification offerings there is no pretence that they are a third party grader and simply put interesting things together.</p><p>I have not been able to find the exact same set on the Internet , similar but not identical. Most are stated as 1/4 ounce coins and this one is a 1 ounce coin. I was lucky enough to meet Bob Evans at the 1715 Fleet Society convention earlier this month and showed him an image and he couldn&#039;t recall the same set either but was going to speak to the people he knew who were involved with Global.</p><p>Bob spoke twice on the last day of the convention about SS Central America minor recoveries on the two salvage expeditions. His lectures were fascinating.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 1715 Fleet Society is a great resource for not only studying 1715 Fleet coins and artefacts but much more. Here is a link to a Central America page. There is a lot to discover on their website, it is eclectic and well put together.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://1715fleetsociety.com/artifacts-from-the-1857-sinking-of-the-fabled-ship-of-gold-the-s-s-central-america-on-display/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://1715fleetsociety.com/artifacts-from-the-1857-sinking-of-the-fabled-ship-of-gold-the-s-s-central-america-on-display/" rel="nofollow">https://1715fleetsociety.com/artifacts-from-the-1857-sinking-of-the-fabled-ship-of-gold-the-s-s-central-america-on-display/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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