Shipwreck of S.S. Central America Yields More Gold Published Aug 30, 2014 at 2:20 PM EDT Updated Feb 27, 2016 at 11:15 AM EST More than 2,900 gold coins and 45 gold ingots have been recovered as well.

The sidewheel paddler SS Central America sank off the coast of North Carolina on Sept. 12, 1857, now 164 years ago. The ship was ruined and 426 souls were lost. But that’s just the beginning ...

The greatest treasure of all in the SS Central America shipwreck off the South Carolina coast might not be gold bars and coins worth millions of dollars. Microscopic organisms in the sediment ...

Nine rare coins minted in San Francisco are the latest finds from the haul left behind by a shipwreck so massive, its sinking contributed to a U.S. financial panic in the 1800s. The SS Central ...

The sidewheel paddler SS Central America sank off the coast of North Carolina on Sept. 12, 1857, now 164 years ago. The ship was ruined and 426 souls were lost. But that’s just the beginning.… ...

The lure of sunken treasure under the waves has wreck-hunting salvage investigators scouring the sea beds to make their ...

While laden with booty, the S.S. Central America shipwreck was also a deep sea gravesite. The ship sank 7,200 feet deep in the Atlantic Ocean during a hurricane on September 12, 1857 .

FILE - This 1989 file photo shows gold bars and coins from the S.S. Central America, a mail steamship, which sunk in a hurricane in 1857, about 160 miles off the North Carolina coast.

SS Republic sank off the southeast coast of the US in 1865. The $10 and $20 gold coins found in the wreck and sold by Odyssey Marine fetched almost $7,000 a coin. Join the conversation ...