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<p>[QUOTE="Brokencompass, post: 1362105, member: 17742"]@Krispy/ @Lettow : A friend gave these to me a year ago and it has been collecting dust. A few weeks ago, I was consolidating my collection and decided to only collect coins. I started looking for more information about these notes and started researching them so that I knew what I was having (and eventually sell it). This is probably the second best thing that happenned to Indian numismatics/ paper money after Admiral Gardner. <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" rel="nofollow">I</a> posted the story here because I felt it was very interesting and figured others might find it interesting too. If I wanted to sell it, I would have posted the same in the Advertising section along with a link to my auction <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>There is also a new shipwreck called the S.S. Gairsoppa that is scheduled to be salvaged for the silver coins it was supposed to be carrying at the time. This shipwreck might have many coins from British India since it was a British Merchant ship containing tons of silver. This might even be more numismatically enriching than Gardner shipwreck. More Information here </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" rel="nofollow">http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag</a></p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" rel="nofollow"><br /></a></p><p><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag" rel="nofollow"></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Brokencompass, post: 1362105, member: 17742"]@Krispy/ @Lettow : A friend gave these to me a year ago and it has been collecting dust. A few weeks ago, I was consolidating my collection and decided to only collect coins. I started looking for more information about these notes and started researching them so that I knew what I was having (and eventually sell it). This is probably the second best thing that happenned to Indian numismatics/ paper money after Admiral Gardner. [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag"]I[/URL] posted the story here because I felt it was very interesting and figured others might find it interesting too. If I wanted to sell it, I would have posted the same in the Advertising section along with a link to my auction ;) There is also a new shipwreck called the S.S. Gairsoppa that is scheduled to be salvaged for the silver coins it was supposed to be carrying at the time. This shipwreck might have many coins from British India since it was a British Merchant ship containing tons of silver. This might even be more numismatically enriching than Gardner shipwreck. More Information here [URL="http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag"]http://abcnews.go.com/Business/240-million-silver-salvaged-wwii-ship-sunk-nazi/story?id=14607820#.Tyhpl1wS2Ag [/URL][/QUOTE]
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