"The many treasures of the S.S. Central America" is the featured talk to be presentedby Mr. Bob Evans, Chief Scientist and Historian of the S.S. Central America Project, and theCo-Discoverer of the shipwreck site. His presentation is scheduled for Friday, October 24th at3:00pm at the Monroeville Convention Center, near Pittsburgh, PA and is part of the PAN Fall CoinShow and Convention.

Bob's talk can be described best in his own words,

Bob is also our featured banquet speaker on Friday evening. We have held a block of tickets forthose that may still want to come even though we are past the RSVP deadline. Just email us atpancoins@gmail.com. PAN would like to make this uniqueevent available to as many as possible. More information can be found on the PAN website.

For more information on the PAN Show, see:
www.pancoins.org

Over 2,000 individual items were recovered duringthis reporting period including over 1,000 gold coins in a wide range of denominations, dates andmint marks, including privately-minted gold coins and rarer smaller denomination gold coins. 61pieces of gold jewelry were also recovered. Following a pattern seen during early jewelryrecoveries, many jewelry pieces were crafted of large gold nuggets.

The cultural heritage artifacts recovered include luggage tags, pieces from a music box, apadlock with key, brass bullet molds, and several daguerreotypes and ambrotypes.

The daguerrotypes and ambrotypes recovered from the SS Central America shipwreck site have beenhand- transported to a specialist photography conservation lab where they are being assessed beforeactive conservation begins.

To read the complete article, see:
Report on Activities at SSCentral America Shipwreck Site July 16, 2014 - August 15, 2014(www.shipwreck.net/documents/OMECourtReport14-4.pdf)