^Lot 563 UNITED STATES, Philadelphia mint, Seated Liberty half dollar, 1861, NGC Shipwreck Effect (SS Republi

UNITED STATES, Philadelphia mint, Seated Liberty half dollar, 1861, NGC Shipwreck Effect (SS Republic Shipwreck Label). KM-A68. According to Bowers' paper "The SS Republic Shipwreck Excavation Project: the Coin Collection," there were 599 1861 halves recovered from the wreck. Desirable Philadelphia-minted date struck in the first year of the Civil War. AU with some surface corrosion, rather lustrous obverse. Recovered from: S.S. Republic, sunk in 1865 off Georgia
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