Shipwreck Sale: ADMIRAL GARDNER 1809 SHIPWRECK INDIA COPPER COIN (AG COIN #3) PRICE REDUCED

NOTE: The description of the ADMIRAL GARDNER shipwreck and the coins found is identical with each lot featuring the coins. The only differences can be seen in the photo of the encased coin and the number of the photo/coin.

The ADMIRAL GARDNER was an "Indian Merchantman" ship, carrying tens of thousands of newly minted X (Roman Numera ten) Cash (denomination) coppers that were minted in England and en route to India. The ship foundered and sunk off the English coast in a storm in 1809. The coins were stored in barrels and it's not known exactly how many coins or barrels were on the ship, but the coins were spewed about the ship and the ocean floor when it sunk.

All of the coins are uncirculated--they'd gone directly from the mint into the barrels loaded on to the ship. Many of the coins show encrustation from the salt water and others look as bright as when they were loaded. The "perfect" mint coins were no doubt found buried inside piles of coins still in barrels and not subjected to the effects of the ocean.

I have listed the ADMIRAL GARDNER coins individually and in their postcard-sized plastic slabs as they were packaged in the 1990s for sale. The cards with the coins were intedned to provide a statement of authenticity (that they indeed were salvaged from the ADMIRAL GARDNER) and to provide background on the coins and ship.

I have listed the ADMIRAL GARDNER coins individually and in their postcard-sized plastic slabs as they were packaged in the 1990s for sale. The cards with the coins were intedned to provide a statement of authenticity (that they indeed were salvaged from the ADMIRAL GARDNER) and to provide background on the coins and ship.

Because after the first five days of hte sale there was, frankly, little interest in these coins offered at $39. Since we have a dozen I decided to dramatically lower the price to only $29-more than a 25% reduction.