^Lot 430 UNITED STATES, New Orleans mint, Seated Liberty half dollar, 1853-O, arrows and rays, NGC / shipwrec

UNITED STATES, New Orleans mint, Seated Liberty half dollar, 1853-O, arrows and rays, NGC / shipwreck effect / inscribed (SS Republic Shipwreck Label). Popular type from this wreck with arrows at the date and rays around the eagle, lustrous XF with contemporary graffiti (hash-mark or crosses) to the right of Liberty. According to Bowers' paper "The SS Republic Shipwreck Excavation Project: the Coin Collection," 829 1853-O halves were recovered from the wreck. Recovered from: S.S. Republic, sunk in 1865 off Georgia
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