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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;johnmilton, post: 3837705, member: 101855&quot;]Those gold pieces were made gold recovered for gold bars that were salvaged from the <i>SS Central America. </i>The company had them tried to market the gold bars, but the weight of the large bars was too much to sell to the general public. Finally they hit on this marketing strategy </p><p><br /></p><p>These pieces are not restrikes because the original dies that were not used to strike these items. They are gold pieces with old recovered gold of the period, struck with copy dies bearing designs from the 19th century. From what I have seen, they are not all that popular with collectors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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