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Treasure hunters recover $50m in WWII silver from 3 miles below ocean surface
Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:51 pm
Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:51 pm
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The SS City of Cairo was torpedoed 772km (480 miles) south of St Helena by a German U-boat and sank to 5,150m.
The 100 tonnes of coins, recovered in the deepest salvage operation in history, belonged to HM Treasury.
The silver rupees had been called in by London to help fund the war effort.
But they never made it. The steamship's tall plume of smoke was spotted by a U-boat on 6 November 1942 and it was torpedoed.
Ten minutes later, amid efforts to abandon ship, the City of Cairo was hit with a second torpedo which sealed its fate.
The ship and its cargo was presumed lost until 2011, when a team led by British salvage expert John Kingsford located an unnatural object among the ridges and canyons of their South Atlantic search area.
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Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:54 pm to Jim Rockford
You don't actually get to keep it all.
Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:55 pm to Jim Rockford
There was a pawn stars episode awhile ago in which someone brought in a very, very similar bunch of treasure coins. I think they were from medieval india. It was all verified and legit and worth like 900k. Rick didn't buy them,.
What makes the coins conjoin to each other?
What makes the coins conjoin to each other?
Posted on 4/15/15 at 11:56 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Sea bacteria?? Idk
Posted on 4/16/15 at 12:00 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
Silver, copper, iron, etc, corrode in salt water. Gold, platinum, and a few others are resistant to corrosion.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 4:14 am to Jim Rockford
Crazy
Posted on 4/16/15 at 4:19 am to Jim Rockford
St. Helena
That's a place you can really get away from it all.
That's a place you can really get away from it all.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 5:59 am to TrueTiger
Whoa, just google image searched St. Helena. That is a cool looking place.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 6:27 am to Jim Rockford
The Royal Museum of London thanks them for their hard work and donation.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 6:47 am to Funky Tide 8
St. Helena in Greensburg, LA?
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:09 am to Jim Rockford
and they won't be able to keep one penny of it. Stupid.... 
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:21 am to HailHailtoMichigan!
My step-dad sells coins. Sold a $4MM one last year, and is working on selling an $8MM right now. Those are single coins by themselves
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:23 am to crazyLSUfan
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Greensburg, LA
A darker color than green comes to mind.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:26 am to JBeam
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and they won't be able to keep one penny of it. Stupid....
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The coins have now been melted down in the UK and sold, with the undisclosed sum divided between the treasury - which technically owns the coins - and the salvagers, who take a percentage of the sale.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:29 am to boom roasted
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The coins have now been melted down
You have to be kidding me
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Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:32 am to ksayetiger
And I just read this
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Shortly after that second torpedo struck 73 years ago, and the last remnants of the City of Cairo disappeared beneath the waves, the U-boat surfaced and approached the survivors' lifeboats.
Its captain, Karl-Friedrich Merten, famously directed them to the nearest land and said: "Goodnight. Sorry for sinking you."
Only six of 311 people aboard died in the sinking, but it would be three weeks before anyone found any of the six lifeboats that had set out for land. In that time, 104 of the 305 survivors died.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 7:38 am to TrueTiger
Bodies in the sand? Tropical drink melting in your hand? Will you be falling in love, to the rhythm of a steel drum band?
Posted on 4/16/15 at 8:52 am to JBeam
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and they won't be able to keep one penny of it. Stupid....
and you didn't read the article. Stupid....
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The coins have now been melted down in the UK and sold, with the undisclosed sum divided between the treasury - which technically owns the coins - and the salvagers, who take a percentage of the sale.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 2:31 pm to Funky Tide 8
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Whoa, just google image searched St. Helena. That is a cool looking place.
Some cool history too. Napoleon was exiled there.
Posted on 4/16/15 at 2:33 pm to Jim Rockford
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