The mammoth California Gold Rush monetary instrument, hand-made of gold, is the single most valuable item recovered from the “Greatest Treasure Ever Found”, the Ship of Gold.

The giant 80-pound Assay Gold Ingot is famously known as the “Eureka Bar.” This unique monetary document has an 1857 face value of $17,433.57 and is literally a currency document made of California Gold Rush GOLD.

Before the offering goes live, the Eureka Bar will be toured around the world through several major venues before finding a long-term home in a museum, for future generations to admire and enjoy.

It is currently owned by “National Treasures I, LLC”, the small group of owners is excited to share the history and intrigue of this priceless and unique national treasure.

The exhibit includes this incredible 1857-S double eagle, graded NGC MS-66 Star, found with 122 other gold coins in the remains of a wooden cargo box transported in the 1857 SS Central America Shipwreck.

The Oldest 5-Button Gold Rush Jeans

Finest Known has purchased the earliest known pair of five-button fly, heavy-duty work pants that some Western Americana historians believe was likely made by or for Levi Strauss & Company in the 1850s, at the height of the California Gold Rush.

These Pants Are Exceptionally Significant

These California Gold Rush Miner’s pants went down with the SS Central America off the Carolina coast during a hurricane in September 1857 and are remarkably well-preserved, with a story to tell.

This pair of men’s work pants were recovered from the Dement trunk found in the debris field at the shipwreck recovery site.

“Many of the Gold Rush-era artifacts in the display have not previously been publicly exhibited,” said Adam Crum, president of Finest Known.

The Knight’s Cross of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus is one of the most interesting and enigmatic artifacts recovered from the S.S. Central America.

The Knight’s Cross medal presented by the Order of Saint Maurice and Saint Lazarus, the world’s second oldest order of knighthood, recovered from the sunken ship’s seabed debris field. This historic Knight’s Cross is a shipwreck survivor recovered from 7,200 feet under the Atlantic Ocean from the first SS Central America recovery in 1991.

Mona Lisa of the Deep

A historic 1857 photograph was found perfectly positioned on a pile of coal, facing up and looking directly at the ROV video camera when it was discovered over 7,200 feet below the Atlantic. This antique Daguerreotype photograph shows a young beautiful woman, hands in her lap, shoulders bare, with curling tresses of hair falling past her shoulders, wearing a lacy blouse with jewelry. She is unknown by name but is known as “Mona Lisa of the Deep” because of her striking pose, enigmatic smile, and exquisite, almost three-dimensional clarity of this historic shipwreck image.