Unprecedented Grouping of Rare Territorial Gold Coins Aboard SS Central America Treasure
Some of the finest known Kellogg & Co. and Wass Molitor & Co. San Francisco gold coins are among the 105 historic California Gold Rush Territorial coins recovered during the last expedition to the fabled “Ship of Gold,” the SS Central America, that sank in 1857. The headline-making recovery also includes a rare variety U.S. Assay Office $20 coin and an unusual counterstamped Wass Molitor $5 gold piece. These are some of the latest major discoveries revealed in the continuing chronicle of the United States' greatest sunken treasure, according to the California Gold Marketing Group (CGMG). “We have finished carefully examining [...]