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Check out my other items ! USA SHIPPING ONLY AUTHENTIC Rare SS Central America Kellogg $50 Gold Coin Make Offer , This is an opertunity to own a piece of History! When the United States Mail Steamship Central America sank in deep water off the coast of the Carolinas during a monstrous 1857 hurricane, it created just such an accidental accumulation of treasure. Bound for New York with 578 passengers and crew, and 38,000 pieces of mail, the Central America also held tons of gold ingots, coins, nuggets , and dust mined from the western gold fields during a defining quarter-century when the country came of age. Lost for 131 years, the Central America shipwreck is a unique time capsule of information and artifacts of an era in which the very character and spirit of America blossomed. The treasure symbolizes one of the most significant periods in American history, the quarter-century between Samuel Morse’s 1837 invention of the telegraph, which launched the country’s first electronic information age, and Abraham Lincoln’s 1863 Gettysburg Address, which gave voice to the unspoken question that lingered for decades in the hearts and minds of the American people—whether the United States "or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure." In becoming students of this period, we found ourselves part of a movement of people whose interest in American history had increased dramatically. This interest has resulted in a variety of modern perspectives on the quarter-century that included the discovery of western gold, the Central America’s sinking, and the economic panic of 1857. We concur with the school of thinking of noted scholar Page Smith and others who view the period before and after the sinking of Central America as one of the most defining periods in American history, a time when, as Smith titled his 1981 history of the era, "the nation came of age." The telegraph— the communication miracle of this electronic information age—caused the nation’s first electronic information explosion. Until its invention Americans shared news the hard way, by walking, riding a horse, or sailing from one place to another and then returning home. The speed of shared information could be no faster than the speed of any particular round trip. In the 1840’s, as the telegraph became part of the fabric of the nation, Americans east of the Mississippi could share news at the speed of light. News in Savannah reached New York immediately. A presidential address set wires humming throughout the East. Americans began to share their enthusiasms, aspirations, and emotions not only as individuals and regional groups, but also as a nation. The dramatic increase in the speed of shared information led to a dramatic increase in "emotional connectedness." With the ability to exchange ideas quickly, being an American became a more immediately shared experience. For the first time, many Americans began to believe in their hearts and minds that the democratic experiment was succeeding and prospering. That belief allowed the national character to blossom into a uniquely American spirit and a robust drive toward progress. The American dream was alive. In 1893, noted scholar Frederick Jackson Turner defined this developing American character as a "coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and acquisitiveness; that the practical inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients, that masterful grasp of material things; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism." Today many nations around the world admire and emulate what it means to be American. Americans, both as individuals and as a nation, are characterized as spirited, optimistic, visionary, forward-thinking, adaptable, and entrepreneurial, traits symbolized by the pioneers, adventurers , a 1855 Kellogg $50 SS Central America Commemorative Restrike. in the box and the coin certified by PCGS (although not graded, as none of these pieces are). These are wonderful reproductions of one of the most impressive territorial gold c... 
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