Comments on: Banknotes Surface From Fabled S.S. Central America Sunken Treasure https://www.coinnews.net/2022/11/04/banknotes-surface-from-fabled-s-s-central-america-sunken-treasure/ CoinNews delivers the latest World and US coin news Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:08:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Kaiser Wilhelm https://www.coinnews.net/2022/11/04/banknotes-surface-from-fabled-s-s-central-america-sunken-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-516032 Sat, 05 Nov 2022 17:08:21 +0000 https://www.coinnews.net/?p=93010#comment-516032 It just occurred to me that the term “surface” in this instance is a double-entendre.

]]> By: Kaiser Wilhelm https://www.coinnews.net/2022/11/04/banknotes-surface-from-fabled-s-s-central-america-sunken-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-516018 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 22:10:15 +0000 https://www.coinnews.net/?p=93010#comment-516018 In reply to c_q.

To be fair, c_q, it was a rather sturdy ship, and as Monty Python so presciently put it, “No one expects the Spanish Inquisition.”

]]> By: c_q https://www.coinnews.net/2022/11/04/banknotes-surface-from-fabled-s-s-central-america-sunken-treasure/comment-page-1/#comment-515996 Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:11:10 +0000 https://www.coinnews.net/?p=93010#comment-515996 “…the loss of the gold cargo was a major factor in the economically devastating financial Panic of 1857″

clearly someone didn’t hear the phrase “not having all your eggs in one basket” when loading the ship.

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