Banknotes Salvaged, Looted or Lost from Shipwrecks

• Lost ships was 36, now 52
• Date ranges of losses was 1882 to 1979 now 1779 to 2019
• Banknote printers with lost consignments was 8 now 14
• Banknote denominations was 74 now 105 - from 45 countries
• Pages was 56 now 90
• Most shipwrecks have a chart with banknotes involved, map of wreck site, image of ship, and banknote images.
  Here's the most recent find as an example of the page layout.
  Jacques Fraissinet article CLICK HERE

  The book costs $20 with $5 US shipping, $11 International shipping.

  Here are the ordering instructions. The cover page and the Bermuda story follow. Also my email address is on the home page at the bottom.

  
  

  To Buy Banknotes Salvaged, Looted or Lost from Shipwrecks

  
  
• Send cash, check, or money order for $20 + shipping for the softback book. For physical payments make payable to Roland Rollins at:
  Roland Rollins
  P.O. Box 15034
  Oklahoma City OK 73155-5034
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• U.S. - $20 + $5 USPS Media mail shipping for book Banknotes Salvaged, Looted or Lost from Shipwrecks
  
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  Here's the cover page of the NEW book.

  Book Cover Jacques Fraissinet

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  Here's the story of the Bermuda as a sample from the book

  Bermuda (1861-1882) Captured 1862

  The double-plated iron screw steamer Bermuda was built in Stockton-on-Tees, England. The ship was secretly sold shortly after her completion—to A. S. Henckle and George Alfred Trenholme of Charleston, South Carolina. The first trip with war contraband was successful and the Bermuda unloaded it’s cargo in Savannah, Georgia, returning with a cargo of cotton to England. In March 1862, apparently on her 2nd voyage running goods to the CSA, the Bermuda put in Bermuda. The Bermuda actually intended on off-loading it’s cargo in Bermuda, leaving the final leg to a CSA port to smaller and speedier ships. British authorities, however, refused to permit her to unload. Almost a month later the ship was captured in the Bahamas attempting to sneak through the Union blockade on the Confederate States of America by Union ship U.S.S. Mercedita. Since the Union records of the Bermuda noted she had run the blockade before, the ship was brought to Philadelphia, the cargo confiscated and the 12 passengers made prisoners. A partial list of the cargo included:
  • A battery of 7 field pieces (rifled), with carriages
  • A number of heavier rifled cannon
  • 42,720 pounds of powder in barrels
  • 70 barrels of cartridges
  • Over 600 cases of shells
  • Banknote paper made from seaweed pulp

  All the illicit cargo was originally loaded in Hartlepool and Liverpool, England. 170+ year old court records show the banknote paper consisted of 490 reams. The confiscated paper was same type as previously used on $10 CSA notes of the same year and later on $100 CSA notes of 1862. Since the paper was used on CSA notes before and after the confiscation, it is obvious the Union blockade was only partially successful! Some of the confiscated paper was used by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for fractional currency – more for proofs but also actual issued notes.

  
  Bermuda
  
  Banknote Watermarked Paper
  After service with the Union navy, now part of the Union blockade, the ship was sold and renamed General Meade, then Bahamas. She saw merchant service until February 1882, when she foundered in a storm while en route from Puerto Rico to New York.

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