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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Dafydd, post: 26696494, member: 86815&quot;]Here is one of those &quot;why the heck did I buy this&quot; coins.</p><p>It is a 2013 Cook Islands $5 SS Republic silver Coin with authentic ship’s coal fragment implant (?) This oval shaped silver coin&nbsp; commemorates the 160th anniversary of the first commercial launch of the historic US vessel, SS Republic, commonly called the “Tennessee”. In 1865 she sunk about 100 miles off the Georgia coast in a terrible hurricane. Coin has partial colouring and a recovered fragment of the Republic’s unused fuel coal. I thought it pretty cool that it had an inbuilt artefact, however tiny, recovered from 1700 feet under the sea,It came in a &quot;treasure chest&quot; COA and is encapsulated. I bought it on MA coins from a German dealer at below silver spot so a great deal.</p><p>It occurred to me that one small lump of coin would probably have accounted for the whole mintage of 1865 pieces. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1703568[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1703569[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1703570[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1703571[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1703572[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Legal tender in the Cook Islands but imagine pulling out one of these to pay for your groceries![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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