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Central America's wreckage are part of what's been described as the greatest lost treasure in American history. The gold is now sitting in a makeshift laboratory just south of Los Angeles.\u003cbr/\u003e              Bob Evans, the chief scientist on the original voyage that discovered the shipwreck containing the treasure in 1988, is now painstakingly cleaning each piece by hand, soaking the gold in a solution and brushing off rust and grime that accumulated as the treasure sat on the ocean floor for more than 150 years.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This is a whole new season of discovery,\" Evans told The Associated Press this week from the laboratory in Santa Ana. \"We are now peering beneath the grime and the rust that is on the coins, removing those objects and those substances and getting to look at the treasure as it was in 1857.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Using sable paintbrushes and a cleaning solution, Evans has been restoring the gold, some of which is completely caked over in black gunk, to its original luster for the past two weeks. He will continue that work through February, when the treasure will go on public display at the Long Beach Convention Center, about 20 miles south of Los Angeles.\u003cbr/\u003e              The gold is all for sale. Just one tiny coin alone could go for $1 million because of its combination of rarity and the history behind it, said Dwight Manley, managing partner of the California Gold Marketing Group, which is displaying and selling the gold.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This is something that in hundreds of years people will still be talking about, reading about, looking back on and collecting things from,\" Manley said. \"There's no other ships that sank that haven't been recovered that rival this or are similar to this so it's really a once-in-a-lifetime situation.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              Meanwhile the man responsible for finding the gold in the first place has been jailed for more than two years over his handling of the original treasure recovered from the ship.\u003cbr/\u003e              Treasure hunter and Ohio native Tommy Thompson found the S.S. Central America in 1988 after convincing 161 local investors to fund the voyage for nearly $13 million.\u003cbr/\u003e              A lengthy battle ensued over who owned the gold, with Thompson and his investors eventually emerging as the victors over a group of insurance companies. Thompson's company sold 532 gold bars and thousands of coins to the California Gold Marketing Group for about $50 million in 2000.\u003cbr/\u003e              Investors never saw any of those proceeds. In 2005 they sued Thompson, who then went into seclusion in Florida and later became a fugitive after an Ohio judge issued a warrant for his arrest in 2012.\u003cbr/\u003e              Authorities tracked Thompson down to a Florida hotel room in 2015. A judge has held Thompson in contempt since December 2015 for violating terms of a plea deal by refusing to respond to questions about the location of 500 missing gold coins.\u003cbr/\u003e              Thompson has previously said the coins were turned over to a trust in Belize. He has also said that the $50 million from the sale of the gold mostly went toward legal fees and bank loans.\u003cbr/\u003e              The S.S. Central America, also known as the Ship of Gold, sank in a hurricane about 200 miles off the South Carolina coast in September 1857. Four hundred and twenty-five people drowned and thousands of pounds of California gold were lost, contributing to an economic panic.\u003cbr/\u003e              The gold recently recovered from the ship is set to be on public display Feb. 22-24 at the Long Beach Convention Center.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              Santa Ana, California - January 23, 2018 \u003cbr/\u003e              1. Medium view of scientist Bob Evans cleaning rust and sediment from a gold bar (ingot)\u003cbr/\u003e              2. Close view of gold bar being cleaned\u003cbr/\u003e              3. Close view of gold bar being cleaned\u003cbr/\u003e              4. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Evans, Expedition Chief Scientist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"It's a culmination of, I guess, a human dream, maybe a childhood dream. To go out looking for sunken treasure and actually find sunken treasure, it's an unbelievable experience.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              5. Medium view of Evans and Dwight Manley looking at gold coins soaking in solution\u003cbr/\u003e              6. Medium view of a coin being brushed\u003cbr/\u003e              7. Medium view of a coin getting brushed\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Bob Evans, Expedition Chief Scientist:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This is a whole new season of discovery because we are now peering beneath the grime and the rust that is on the coins, removing those objects and those substances and getting to look at the treasure as it was in 1857.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. Medium view of Dwight Manley removing coins from storage tubes\u003cbr/\u003e              10.  Close view of Dwight Manley removing coins from the tubes\u003cbr/\u003e              11. Medium view of all the coins sitting on cloths after being removed from the tubes\u003cbr/\u003e              12. SOUNDBITE (English) Dwight Manley, Managing Partner, California Gold Marketing Group:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"There are a little bit over 3,100 gold coins, over 10,000 silver coins, over 1,000 ounces of gold dust and 45 ingots. 12. The cumulative value when gold was $1,250 an ounce when I did the appraisal was $48 million for that.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              13. Close view of gold bars sitting in a row\u003cbr/\u003e              14. Medium view of gold bars\u003cbr/\u003e              15. Medium view of Dwight Manley holding up a gold bar\u003cbr/\u003e              16. SOUNDBITE (English) Dwight Manley, Managing Partner, California Gold Marketing Group:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"This is something that in hundreds of years that people will still be talking about, reading about, looking back on and collecting things from.  And they'll never be another one. There's nothing missing. There's no other ships that sank that haven't been recovered that rival this or are similar to this so it really is a once-in-a-lifetime situation.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              17. Close view of gold coin getting finishing touches with a brush\u003cbr/\u003e              18. 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