On September the 9th, the ship encountered a tropical
storm. By Friday, the weather went from
bad to just plain mean. The ship was in
the grips of a hurricane off the coast of the Carolinas. On Saturday the 12th of September,
the ship was hit with a wave and slipped beneath the surface of the ocean.
Why is this ship so important?
The cargo of this ship was valued at the time of the sinking at $2 million
dollars in gold coins and bars (which was 10 tons of just gold), and this ship
is sometimes called “The Ship of Gold”.
Many books have been written about the ship, along with the recovery and
sale of the coins and bars.
Many collectors covet the coins of the SS Central America, and coin collectors still actively look for pieces from the shipwreck to add to their collections (even well after the sale of the cargo in the year 2000).
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