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1715 Fleet Shipwreck Coins
The 1715 fleet was a Spanish convoy of twelve
ships bound for Spain from Havana laden with a wealth of New World gold
and silver. On Wednesday July 31, 1715, a devastating hurricane sank
eleven of the fleet's ships off the east coast of Florida, in an area
south of Melbourne to a point south of Fort Pierce. Millions of
dollars in gold and silver cobs, ingots, and other treasures along with
hundreds of lives were lost.
Spanish salvage operations in the following years
recovered much of the treasure, but the remaining riches rested on the
ocean floor for almost 250 years until its discovery in the 1960's by Kip
Wagner and the Real Eight Company along with their associate Mel Fisher.
Certificates of Authenticity accompany all 1715 Fleet Shipwreck treasure
coins. View a typical New
World Treasures photo type Certificate of Authenticity.
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1715 Fleet - 8 Reales |
Item#: 8014
Denomination: 8 reales
Mint: Mexico
Assayer: Not Visible (J)
Weight: 26.4 grams
Diameter: 1.2-1.9 inches
Price: $395.00 BUY
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type cob, Mexico mint, Philip V, assayer J (not visible), circa 1713-1714. Cross
side features include a full cross with one very nice lion and castle
visible in the bottom cross quadrants.
Lightly visible 70% full shield
of the 1713-1714 period design, visible M mintmark, denomination
mark 8, and 17xx of date (the 7 is very light). A nearly full weight fleet
coin with a very desirable shape. Supplied with a
New
World Treasures photo type Certificate of Authenticity as
seen in this example and a
booklet "Shipwrecks and Their Coins: Volume 3 -
1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet" that provides details about the
fleet and its coins. |
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1715 Fleet - 8 Reales |
Item#: 9020
Denomination: 8 reales
Mint: Mexico
Assayer: Not Visible (J)
Weight: 27.0 grams
Diameter: 1.2-1.8 inches
Price: $395.00 BUY
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type cob, Mexico mint, Philip V, assayer J (not visible but
confirmed by the design), circa 1713-1715. Cross
side features include a nearly full cross with
one nice lion and castle visible in the right cross quadrants.
The shield side features a 70% full shield of the 1713-1715
period design. A nearly full weight coin
with great eye appeal. Supplied with both the original
Cobb Coin Company Certificate of Authenticity and a New
World Treasures photo type Certificate of Authenticity as
seen in this example.
Also included is a
booklet "Shipwrecks and Their Coins: Volume 3 -
1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet" that provides details about the
fleet and its coins. |
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1715 Fleet - 4 Reales |
Item#: 8004
Denomination: 4 reales
Mint: Mexico
Assayer: J
Weight: 12.7 grams
Diameter: 1.0-1.2 inches
Price: $345.00 BUY
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type cob, Mexico mint, Philip V, assayer J, circa 1713-1714. Cross
side features include a 70% full cross with a visible castle and
lion in the top cross quadrants. Nice 60% full shield
of the 1713 to early 1714 period design. Nice 4 reales coins are in high demand due to their
perfect size for jewelry mounting. Supplied with a
New
World Treasures photo type Certificate of Authenticity as
seen in this example and a
booklet "Shipwrecks and Their Coins: Volume 3 -
1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet" that provides details about the
fleet and its coins. |
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1715 Fleet - 8 Reales |
Item#: 9019
Denomination: 8 reales
Mint: Potosi
Assayer: Y
Weight: 25.5 grams
Diameter: 1.3-1.4 inches
Price: $995.00
SOLD
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and Waves
type cob, Potosi mint, Philip V, assayer Y, dated
1707. Nice full cross with a
bold castle and lion in the upper cross quadrants and partially
visible ones in the lower. Also visible on the cross side
are portions of the crown and denomination mark 8 along with the
assayer mark Y at right. Exceptional pillars side details
including the denomination mark 8, assayer mark Y, mintmark P,
most of the central PLV SVL TRA, portions of the mint name POTOSI
in the legend, bold central date 1707,
and most importantly a full peripheral date
1707 (in the legend). Full
peripheral dates are rare finds on cobs, but even more rare on
the few recovered from the 1715 fleet. This is a beautiful
Potosi mint coin, the nicest that we've seen from this wreck and
as nice as others in the Florida state collection. Supplied with a
New
World Treasures photo type Certificate of Authenticity as
seen in this example and a
booklet "Shipwrecks and Their Coins: Volume 3 -
1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet" that provides details about the
fleet and its coins. |
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1715 Fleet - 2 Escudos |
Item#: 7227
Denomination: 2 escudos
Mint: Bogotá
Assayer: Not Visible
Weight: 6.7 grams
Diameter: .85 inches
Price: $3295.00 BUY
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type 2 escudos, Philip V (actually a posthumous issue of Charles
II struck during the reign of Philip V), Santa Fe de Bogotá mint, assayer
Buenaventura de Arce (not visible as is typical of this issue), circa
1713, uncirculated condition with traces of sediment in the
crevices.
Observe: Crowned coat of arms of a style unique to 1713
issues.
Reverse: Excellent full Jerusalem cross with some visible legend. This
coin was recovered from Corrigan's Wreck, the resting place of
the Nuestra Senora de la Regla, the Capitana of the New Spain
Fleet and has the original Mel Fisher Cobb Coin Company tag. Supplied
with a New World Treasures photo type Certificate of
Authenticity and a booklet "Shipwrecks and Their Coins: Volume 3 -
1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet" that provides details about the
fleet and its coins. |
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1715 Fleet - 8 Escudos |
Item#: 7048
Denomination: 8 escudos
Mint: Mexico
Assayer: J
Weight: 26.9 grams
Diameter: 1.2-1.3 inches
Price: $12750.00
SOLD
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type 8 escudos, dated 171(3) (the 3
is confirmed by the design details), Philip V,
Mexico mint, assayer
J.
Excellent full cross of the 1711-1713 time period design.
Exceptionally nice shield of the type found only on coins from
the year 1713 (no pomegranate of Granada and full X in the
saltire of Naples and Sicily), full oXM and J mint and assayer
marks boldly struck at left along with the 171 of the date
171(3). This
exceptional coin was recovered by the Real Eight Company in
February 1966 from the Nieves wreck site and is supplied
with a Mel Fisher's Treasures, LLC photo type Certificate of
Authenticity and a booklet "Shipwrecks and Their Coins: Volume 3 -
1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet" that provides details about the
fleet and its coins. |
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1715 Fleet - 8 Escudos |
Item#: 10122
Denomination: 8 escudos
Mint: Mexico
Assayer: J
Weight: 27.0 / 36.0 grams with bezel
Diameter: 1.4 inches with bezel
Price: $8995.00 BUY
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type 8 escudos, dated 1715 (only
the very bottoms of the digits are visible) Philip V,
Mexico mint, assayer
J.
Excellent full cross and shield including a bold mint mark oM,
assayer mark J, and denomination mark VIII. Although just
the very bottom of the date is visible, enough is visible to
make a positive identification of 1715. This is also
confirmed by the shield side design, which is clearly that of
the year 1715. This
impressive piece is mounted in a heavy 9.0 gram 18k gold bezel
and was basically uncirculated prior to being lost at sea. Supplied
with a New World Treasures photo type Certificate of
Authenticity and a booklet "Shipwrecks and Their Coins: Volume 3 -
1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet" that provides details about the
fleet and its coins. |
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