The Knapton Collection - Catalog
Search and filter the NGC-certified shipwreck coins of The Knapton Collection. New entries are added as photography and certification details are processed.
Among the first coins ever struck in the New World - 1 of only 4 known of the 3 Dot / Water Below Pillars variety.
U.S. Army payroll lost in an 1857 freak wave off the Florida coast - recovered a century later.
Recovered from the only definitively identified pirate shipwreck - Sam Bellamy's flagship, the Whydah Galley.
Recovered from an unseaworthy emigrant ship that broke apart on a reef off Isla Brava in 1865.
Recovered from the S.S. Tararua - New Zealand's deadliest peacetime maritime disaster.
Luis I 8 Reales from the Seahorse - a South Sea Company slave ship lost off the Río de la Plata in 1728.
One of only two coins confirmed from HMS Looe - with a salvage pedigree tracing through Cruz, McKee, and Eidel.
One of only an estimated 10–20 coins recovered from the S.S. Pewabic - passenger property salvaged from a Civil War-era Lake Huron disaster.