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(1556-1622) Boliva 8 Reales Nuestra Senora del Rosario |
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Bolivia |
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8R (1556-1622) BOLIVIA Senora del Rosario |
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NGC PR 1 |
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From the Internet:
"The Nuestra Señora Del Rosario was one of the ill-fated ships in the legendary “Spanish Treasure Fleet” of 1622. These 28 ships, laden with treasure from the New World, were hit by a storm that sank eight of their number. Luckily, some coins from the Rosario were discovered, making them some of the scarcest shipwreck coins ever! This is your chance to secure an 8 Reales silver coin now from the famous shipwreck, certified and slabbed by the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) as official Shipwreck Effect!
One of history’s most tragic – and expensive – maritime disasters, the loss of the eight treasure-laden ships from Spain’s 1622 flotilla changed the course of world events. From 1530 to 1735, Spain received a biannual convoy of ships from the New World. The valuable treasure the ships brought home enabled Spain to pay off foreign money leaders and the steady income made Spain a superpower. In 1622, Spain was hip deep in the Thirty Years War against the French and Dutch and the loss of the Nuestra Señora Del Rosario along with the seven other ships destroyed the Bank of Madrid – and even contributed to the collapse of the Spanish Empire.
The shipment in 1622 looked to be one of Spain’s biggest hauls yet. There was so much treasure to be loaded that it delayed the fleet’s departure by more than two months, forcing the fleet to leave in August just as the hurricane season was blowing into the Caribbean. By the time the fleet reached the Florida Keys powerful winds and high seas battered the ships and the convoy became separated. Twenty vessels managed to make deeper water and were able to ride out the storm. The eight ships in the rear of the convoy were caught and were either destroyed on shallow reefs or capsized and sank. The two most famous ships lost were the Atocha and the Santa Margarita.
Spain spent years trying to recover the treasure, but after another hurricane blew in and scattered what remained of the ships, the efforts were eventually abandoned only to be renewed centuries later by modern treasure hunters equipped with the high-tech equipment and modern diving techniques. The remains of the Nuestra Señora Del Rosario were first discovered in 1989 around 400 miles from the Florida Keys. Even though experts believed it was part of the fabled 1622 fleet, her identity wasn’t confirmed until 2013. Besides the gold bars and silver Pieces of Eight that were found, one of the more unusual items discovered was a cache of more than 6,000 rare pearls. The gems came from a type of oyster unique to South America and nearly extinct by the early 17th century thanks to over-exploitation by colonial traders.
Coins form the Nuestra Señora Del Rosario shipwreck are among the rarest shipwreck coins in the world. Only 332 coins of all denominations have ever been certified by NGC with the Rosario shipwreck designation. These 8 Reales recovered from the Nuestra Señora Del Rosario are the fabled “Pieces of Eight” from pirate lore struck from 1556-1622 and minted in fine 93% silver. Coins like this circulated throughout the Americas and were legal tender in the United States up until 1857!"
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Silver 4 Reales Cob from the Sao Jose Shipwreck |
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Mexico |
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REALES MEXICO 4 (1589-1617)MO F M06.003/05/2096.107 |
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NGC SHIPWRECK EFFECT |
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This is a silver cob that was minted in Mexico City during the time Spain was expanding into the New World. The Sao Jose' wreck which was discovered off the coast of Eastern Africa was in route from Lisbon, Portugal with various coins aboard.
While searching for a coin from this shipwreck, I noted that much of the 4 Reales were severely effected by the salt water or "shipwreck effect." This coin in particular stood out as it is relatively round with a decent shield and cross. The next slot which is the 8 Reales is the true beauty from this Shipwreck!
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Silver 8 Reales Cob from the Sao Jose Shipwreck |
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Mexico |
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REALES MEXICO 8 (1618-22)MO D M06.003/05/2085.003 |
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NGC SHIPWRECK EFFECT |
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This Treasure coin is simply WOW! The prior slot is a 4 Reales from the Sao Jose' Shipwreck whose reverse has a rather nice cross. This 8 Reales however is probably the best looking coin I have ever encountered from the Sao Jose' coins available on the market. For those that are familiar with the Sao Jose', you will recognize the Grade 1 sticker on the slab. Most all were labeled 1-4 to classify the effect that the seawater had on the silver. Unlike gold, silver tends to deteriorate with exposure to the sea. This coin is one of the highlights of this set in my opinion. It has such good relief and detail remaining vs. other coins from this wreck. Not to mention it is fully round!
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(1621-1630)MO Mexico 8 Reales Spice Islands Shipwreck |
| Origin/Country: |
Mexico |
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8R (1621-30)MO MEXICO PHILIP IV Spice Islands Shipwreck |
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NGC GENUINE |
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Owner Comments
I purchased this coin from the 63rd Houston Money Show. As a shipwreck collector, I was surprised to see this particular coin because I had not run across it before in a NGC slab. After some brief discussion, I learned that it was a rather fresh batch from a recent salvage operation. The dealer had quite a few examples of this exact date and type at a more than fair flat price! I spent some time picking one out that had what I would call a Grade 1 obverse and reverse in respect to the available inventory at the table.
The Spice Islands are a small group of islands NE of Indonesia. An unknown ship is presumed to have sunk circa 1630 leaving behind several chests of 8 Reales minted in Mexico City and Potosi during the reign of King Philip IV of Spain. Given how long it was at the bottom of the sea, this is a really good example given the effects saltwater has on silver.
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(1542-1555) Mexico 4R Carlos & Joanna Golden Fleece Shipwreck |
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FRANCE - TO 1600 |
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ECU'OR 1565F FR-378 CHARLES IX (9.78g) Golden Fleece |
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NGC XF Details |
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I was excited to find this coin on eBay one evening. I was not well rehearsed on the Golden Fleece Shipwreck. This old Carlos & Joanna 4 Reales was certified by NGC as "Sea Salvaged" along with the "Golden Fleece" annotation on the holder. This added another shipwreck to the collection. The story of John Bannister and the Golden Fleece is an interesting one and worth a Google search.
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1695L Peru 8 Reales Association Shipwreck |
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PERU 1659-1826 |
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8R 1695L R (25.86g) Association (1707) |
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NGC VF Details |
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From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Association_(1697)
"In October 1707, Association, commanded by Captain Edmund Loades and with Admiral Shovell on board, was returning from the Mediterranean after the Toulon campaign. The 21 ships in the squadron entered the mouth of the English Channel on the night of 22 October 1707 (Old style). At 8 pm, Association struck the Outer Gilstone Rock (see image)[3] off the Isles of Scilly, and was wrecked with the loss of her entire crew of about 800 men. As a result of navigational errors, the ships were not where they were reckoned to be. Association was seen by those on board HMS St George to go down in three or four minutes' time. Among the dead were Captain Loades and Admiral Shovell, his stepsons Sir John Narborough and James Narborough (sons of Shovell's wife from her marriage to Rear Admiral Sir John Narbrough) as well as Henry Trelawney, second son of the Bishop of Winchester. Captain Loades was the son of Rear Admiral Narbrough's sister.[4] Three other ships (HMS Eagle, HMS Romney and HMS Firebrand) were also lost, bringing the death toll to nearly 2,000.[5] The Scilly naval disaster was one of the greatest maritime disasters in British history. It was largely as a result of this disaster that the Board of the Admiralty instituted a competition for a more precise method to determine longitude. There is a memorial depicting the sinking of the Association in the church at the Narboroughs' home of Knowlton near Dover."
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1715 Fleet (1677-1705) Mexico 8 Reales |
| Origin/Country: |
MEXICO - TO 1823 |
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8R (1678-1701)L CHARLES II 1715 Fleet (25.63g) |
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NGC VG 10 |
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I am especially proud of this coin as I purchased it raw and sent it to NGC for grading with all my supporting documentation. There are quite a few gold 1715 Fleet coins on the open market that a collector can purchase however this is not the case for a 1715 Fleet silver cob. Do a quick search and you will have a tough time locating a slabbed and graded piece on eBay, Collectors Corner, etc. After months of searching, I decided to buy a raw cob that was salvaged in the late 1970's by now deceased Roger Miklos. His son currently is the star of Cooper's Treasure. The cob came in a nice presentation folder with associated COA. As suggested by NGC, I sent the coin in with all the appropriate back-up. I was expecting a grade of "Shipwreck Effect" but was very surprised to see that this coin came in at a VG10. Not only was this coin part of the 1715 Fleet but it did well enough during its time in the sea to still see a proper grade. The full date is not visible but NGC places this Piece of 8 in the 1677-1705 range of Charles II. There has been much silver found in Southeast Florida but rarely do you see it graded in a holder. Definitely proud of this treasure coin and not to mention its salvage history with the (at the time) famous Miklos.
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1715 Fleet (1694-1713) Columbia 2 Escudo |
| Origin/Country: |
COLOMBIA - COLONIAL |
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2E (1694-1713) CHARLES II TYPE 1715 Fleet (6.8g) 300th Anniversary Find |
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NGC MS 64 |
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Owner Comments
From the Seller:
"On July 24th, 1715, Spain’s treasure-rich “New Spain” Fleet sailed from Havana, Cuba with a cargo valued at fourteen million pesos in silver, gold and jewels. One week into the voyage near present day Vero Beach, Florida they were met by a furious hurricane resulting in the loss of eleven of the fleet’s twelve ships and 700 lives. Only one ship, a chartered French vessel, survived. Fourteen million pesos in registered treasure were lost in one of the worst maritime disasters of all time. The wreckage of 11 ships was strewn over a forty mile area from Ft. Pierce to Cape Canaveral on Florida’s east coast.
For nearly 250 years the sea would hold the treasure captive. Only occasionally tossing a blackened silver peso or gold escudo that were stuck together at would-be discoverers 100 feet from the Florida shoreline. In 2015 only 295 gold coins were found by divers exploring the area on the 300th anniversary of the disaster. Tightly controlled, all of these would be sold in 2016 and 2017.
This is a very high grade Columbia 2 Escudo Charles II type NGC MS64 from the 1715 Fleet 300 Anniversary find. It will be very hard to find anything from the shipwreck nicer than this specimen."
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1724 Gold Ducat from the Akerendam Shipwreck |
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NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 |
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DUCAT 1724 Netherland UTRECHT AKERENDAM WRECK |
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NGC MS 63 |
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From the Internet:
"Akerendam was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), built in 1724. On January 19, 1725, the Akerendam left in convoy with two other ships, heading for Batavia with a crew of 200 people and 19 chests of gold and silver on board. On March 8, 1725 the Akerendam drifted in a snow storm and sank near the cliffs of Runde island (Norwegian west coast). Despite the fact that the ship was wrecked close to the shore there were no survivors.
During the next months, 5 chests of coins were recovered. No more was found and the site was forgotten until Swedish and Norwegian sports divers rediscovered the wreck site in 1972. Although little remained of the ship, about 57,000 gold and silver coins were recovered. The 6,600 gold coins were mostly the rare Dutch gold ducats, minted in Utrecht in 1724; prior to this find only a handful of these ducats were known. Norway's largest coin treasure is also referred to as 'the Runde Treasure'
The Norwegian share of the Runde treasure was divided between the University of Oslo’s Coin Cabinet and Bergen Maritime Museum. In January of 2011, some of the coins from the Maritime Museum were transported back to the island for an exhibition at Runde Miljøsenter. The divers' portion of 75% of the treasure was auctioned in Switzerland in 1978."
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1729 Gold Ducat from the Vliegenhart Shipwreck |
| Origin/Country: |
NETHERLANDS 1601-1816 |
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DUCAT 1729 Netherland HOLLAND Vliegenthart |
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NGC MS 62 |
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This beautiful gold coin was recovered from the Vliegenthart or "Flying Heart" which was owned by the Dutch East India Company who focused on the trade route around the Cape of Good Hope to the East Indies. She was commissioned in 1730 and carried 42 guns for her trade voyages. The ship sank in February of 1735 in Dutch Waters due to a strong gale that swept it into a sandbar. Everyone perished in 60' of water and attempts were made to salvage the small hoard of silver and gold that was to be used for trade but the East India Company was unsuccessful. In 1977 a team of researchers discovered a secret company map that pinpointed the wreck and salvage operations began. Below is an excerpt from online describing the "Ducat"
"The gold coins were the legendary Dutch Ducats. These coins were struck to help the Dutch East India Company establish trade markets in the East Indies and soon became one of the worlds most respected trade coins. Featuring a knight in armor on one side surrounded by the motto 'Through harmony small things increase' and an inscription on the other side which reads 'Gold money of the United Provinces of the Netherlands and their imperial law', the design remained unchanged from ruler to ruler. Some of the gold Ducats aboard the Vliegenthart were machine-made coins of the era, manufactured from hand-cut planchets on a screw press. Others, made by the ancient method of hand-hammering, have somewhat less detail in the stroke and are more erratic in shape as is typical of a hand made coin. All gold Ducats recovered from the Vliegenthart are dated 1729. They never entered circulation, and because gold does not corrode, they appear almost exactly the same as the day they were struck even after 250 years in sea water."
Read more at http://www.oceantreasures.org/pages/content/famous-wrecks/the-dutch-v-o-c-vliegenthart.html
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Princess Louisa Spanish Colonial 4 Reales |
| Origin/Country: |
Spain |
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4R SPANISH COLONIAL (1598-1651) Salvor's Reserve Hoard |
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NGC GENUINE |
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This is a Spanish Colonial 4 Reales that was recovered from the Princess Louisa. This was an English ship that was used by the East India Company. It met her fate on a 4th voyage on the way to Bombay. While in route with the Winchester (another English ship), a reef caught her hull off the Cape Verde Islands of Africa. 74 of the 115 crew perished with 41 making it to shore using floating debris. An attempt was made to salvage the 20 chests of nearly 70,000 ounces of Spanish coins but that failed. 225 years went by until more modern salvage operations were successful. This group of coins were some of the best examples set aside by the original ship salvors that were eventually marketed with the help of NGC. Very neat history and not a common shipwreck coin you can find very easily on the open market.
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Princess Louisa Mexico 8 Reales |
| Origin/Country: |
Mexico |
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8R (1598-1733) MEXICO Salvor's Reserve Hoard |
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NGC GENUINE |
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This is a Mexico 8 Reales that was recovered from the Princess Louisa. This was an English ship that was used by the East India Company. It met her fate on a 4th voyage on the way to Bombay. While in route with the Winchester (another English ship), a reef caught her hull off the Cape Verde Islands of Africa. 74 of the 115 crew perished with 41 making it to shore using floating debris. An attempt was made to salvage the 20 chests of nearly 70,000 ounces of Spanish coins but that failed. 225 years went by until more modern salvage operations were successful. This group of coins were some of the best examples set aside by the original ship salvors that were eventually marketed with the help of NGC. Very neat history and not a common shipwreck coin you can find very easily on the open market.
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(1726-40)I France ECU La Dramadaire |
| Origin/Country: |
France |
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ECU (1726-40)I FRANCE La Dramadaire |
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NGC GENUINE |
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From the Internet:
"Talk about collateral damage! The famous wreck of the French treasure ship La Dromadaire was due in no small part to an ongoing conflict between France, Spain and Great Britain.
Thanks to the political upheaval created by the Anglo-Spanish War of 1762-1763, French authorities asked the French East India Company to chart a new course for its ship La Dromadaire (which is French for “camel”) that would avoid possible interceptions by English privateers. Laden with 20 guns, 1,000 cannon balls and a chest of silver, La Dromadaire set sail from the Port of Lorient on February 6, 1762. Ensnared not by pirates, but by bad weather, La Dromadaire was carried into the dangerous reefs off the island of Sao Vicente and broke in two on February 19, 1762, sinking with 77 souls and its entire cargo valued at around $6.8 million.
More than two centuries later, the La Dromadaire wreck site was found during a survey of San Vicente Island. Salvors quickly began excavating the site and were able to recover 19 cannons, a semi-precious stone from a ring and 3,377 silver coins. The coins were struck between 1700 and 1762 and feature either the portrait of King Louis XIV – the great Sun King – or his great-grandson, King Louis XV. Each coin was struck in nearly an ounce of 91.7% fine silver and has been graded by the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation (NGC) as being in Genuine Shipwreck condition.
These are fascinating coins that not only come from a well-known shipwreck, but also represent an important historical milestone in American history. You see, following the loss of the La Dromadaire, the French, English and Spanish sat down and signed the Treaty of Paris that brought the Anglo-Spanish War to an end. The terms of the treaty saw the British withdrawing from Cuba and Spain handing Florida over to Great Britain. To compensate for their ally’s losses, the French ceded Louisiana to Spain as part of the Treaty of Fontainebleau following the end of the French and Indian War, which Europeans referred to as the Seven Year’s War of which the Anglo-Spanish War was part of."
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1770 1/2 Real from the El Cazador |
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Mexico |
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1/2R 1770MO M MEXICO EL CAZADOR |
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NGC GENUINE |
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This is a 1/2 Reale from the El Cazador ship wreck. The next slot is also a 1/2 Reale however this obverse design is a Pillar Dollar. Although the El Cazador is not the most prominent shipwreck in maritime history it did play a significant role in the history of the Spanish new world due to its sinking prior to reaching New Orleans. My goal is to obtain each of the denominations of 1783 (1/2R, 1R, 2R, 4R, & 8R) which is the prevailing year of coinage on the vessel prior to its sinking in 1784.
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1783 1/2 Real from the El Cazador |
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Mexico |
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1/2R 1783MO FF MEXICO EL CAZADOR |
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NGC GENUINE |
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This is the 1783 1/2 Reale from the El Cazador ship wreck. Although the El Cazador is not the most prominent shipwreck in maritime history it did play a significant role in the history of the Spanish new world due to its sinking prior to reaching New Orleans. My goal is to obtain each of the denominations of 1783 (1/2R, 1R, 2R, 4R, & 8R) which is also the year the ship sank.
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