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Highly lustrous and delightfully brilliant honey gold surfaces. The final selection in our
all too brief offering of treasure double eagles from the S.S. Republic.From the same dies
as the 1865 double eagle in the preceding lot. The age of this and other 1865 double
eagles was measured in months, not years, when the ship went down in October 1865. As
multiple examples are found from the same die pair, possibly a group or cluster of these
remained intact after minting at Philadelphia, jostled around in a bag to become marked,
but still lustrous. Likely, these and the other Mint State coins never reached general
commerce.From the S.S. Republic treasure.
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