"The California Gold Rush: Getting there, Mining, Contemporary stories and accounts, Private coiners and assayers, San Francisco Mint -- Treasure of the S.S. Central America: Saga at sea of the ...
13 troy ounce Kellogg & Humbert gold ingot, expected to sell for $80,000-$100,000. The gold bar, stamped “Kellogg &” and “Humbert”, was valued at just $236.82 in 1857 dollars. 1852 US Assay Office $50 ...
Large 18-karat California Gold Rush gold quartz engraved brooch that California’s first millionaire, San Francisco businessman Sam Brannan, was sending in 1857 to his son in Geneva, Switzerland as a ...
America's landscape holds countless secrets beneath its surface, from ancient Native American artifacts to lost Civil War relics and modern geological discoveries. A classic example is the Ancient ...
The gold-filled ship started sinking off the North Carolina coast during a hurricane. Screengrab from Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum on Facebook A ship carrying more than $1.5 million in gold sank ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Tampa-based Odyssey Marine first made headlines by discovering and recovering half a billion dollars of gold and silver from the Spanish shipwreck, Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes.