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Treasures of doomed 'Ship of Gold' tour U.S. before auction
By Amanda Lee Myers
USA Today, Tysons, Virginia
Friday, July 29, 2022
Treasures recovered from a shipwreck that's been at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean since 1857 are now on tour before going up for auction in the fall.
From a pair of work pants and wedding rings to letters and a first edition of "The Count of Monte Cristo," the artifacts represent both a snapshot of American life during the California Gold Rush and the human tragedy behind the shipwreck of the S.S. Central America.
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Four hundred and twenty five people drowned when the ship sank 7,000 feet below sea level during a hurricane off the Carolina Coast.
The tragedy has long been overshadowed by two facts.
First, the ship was laden with tons of gold, the loss of which made it the greatest economic disaster in U.S. maritime history and contributed to a global panic.
Second, a treasure hunter who found the ship against all odds in 1988 became enmeshed in a decades-long legal battle over the gold before he became a fugitive of the law and eventually ended up in a jail cell. ...
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