Owner Comments:
Note: COIN IS INELIGIBLE FOR ENCAPSULATION
DESCRIPTION
Date: 1618-1620
RULER: Philip IV
ASSAYER: D-Diego de Godoy
WEIGHT: 13.5g.
The obove coin was recovered from an unknown shipwreck sunk in 1628 off the coast of Grand Bahama Island.
THE 1628 SHIPWRECK DISCOVERED ON LUCAYAN BEACH
The Lucayan Beach wreck/treasure, sunk off Grand Bahama Island in the Bahamas. Since the accidental discovery in 1964 of around 10,000 silver cobs (dated up to and including 1628) in 10 feet of water just 1,300 yards from the Lucayan Beach Hotel, the mystery of identifying the lost vessel has never been solved. Because of the date, popular opinion associates the wreck with the taking of the Spanish 1628 Fleet in Matanzas Bay, Cuba by the Dutch pirate/national hero Piet Heyn, who reported losing two of the vessels on the way back to Europe. Three names proposed for the ship(s) by various sellers over the years were the Van Lynden, the Santa Gertrude (or Gertrudis) and the Romario, with scant evidence to support the attributions.
Practically all the coins have been Mexican 8 and 4 reales of the assayer D period (Diego de Godoy 1618-1634), some in quite nice condition and a few with clear dates, which of course are rare.