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Unique 1854 New Orleans gold coin returns home
Unique 1854 New Orleans Quarter Eagle gold coin. Photo: Professional Coin Grading Service.
NEW ORLEANS, LA
.- A unique, sunken treasure gold coin that made its way from New Orleans to the California Gold Rush and then to the Panama railroad before going down with a famous ship has now come home to The Big Easy for the public to see.
It left the United States Mint branch in New Orleans 167 years ago, and for 157 of those years it was submerged on the floor of the Atlanta Ocean as part of Americas greatest lost treasure.
Historic sunken treasure finally back in The Big Easy after 167-year journey that included being submerged more than 7,000 feet underwater when SS Central