After decades of work to establish a maritime museum in Hatteras, villagers were there to celebrate the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum reopening Monday with a new exhibit gallery awash in centuries of dramatic maritime history.
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Coins donated to the graveyard of the Atlantic Museum. Photo: NC Maritime Museums
Reprinted from Island Free Press
A rare coin collection currently housed behind-the-scenes at the Graveyard of the Atlantic Museum made waves this week in newspapers around the country, but funds are needed to transition the coins into a permanent, public exhibit, per Joseph Schwarzer, director of the North Carolina Maritime Museums system.
“Eventually, if we get funding, we plan to have (them) in our permanent exhibit plan,” said Schwarzer.
According to a Jan. 4 report in The Virginian-Pilot, the 55 coins were donated by the late William Sell and his wife Catherine of Pennsylvania. Spanning from 221 B.C. to the mid-20th century, the coins were acquired through decades of beachcombing along Hatteras Island.