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(1715 Fleet, Maravillas)
Lima 8 escudos (1715 Fleet, etc)
from the 1715 Fleet
from the 1715 Fleet (new 1713, 1714, and a dated ornate cross 1711)
Mexican 4, 2, 1 escudos from the 1715 Fleet
Cob Eight Reales ( Concepcion, Maravillas, 1715 & 1733 Fleet, Atocha, Vliegenthart )
Portrait 8 escudos (from Nuestra Senora de la Luz)
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(new listings)
(shipwreck New World)
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S.S. New York , S.S. Republic, S.S. Central America, S.S. Brother Jonathon. New listings!
Scarce 20C variety, PQ MS63 Original box and cert, $6950
1857 S from the SS Republic
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Goldcobs.com is committed to offering you the finest Spanish Colonial escudos and reales. We are recognized experts in the New World gold cobs recovered from the Florida shipwrecks of the 1715 Fleet. We also maintain a selection of choice escudos and reales from other important New World shipwrecks such as Nuestra Senora de la Luz, Maravillas, Concepcion, and Mesuno. If shipwreck coins are not to your liking, we offer exceptional mint state portrait 8 escudos, cob 8 reales and pillar & bust 8 reales. Please scroll down to see our latest offerings, or follow the navigation at the left for more complete listings. In 2009 we introduced a page devoted to the remarkable recent deepwater recoveries of 19th century US gold coins. In 2010 we plan to expand our coverage of gold recovered from the S.S. New York, S.S. Republic, S.S. Brother Jonathon, and S.S. Central America. We want to educate you about the coins that you are interested it. We will show you the best photos our photographic skills permit and give you in-depth, authoritative descriptions of the coins and their history. Take you time and feel free to ask questions. This is not a frenetic, caveat emptor auction site! Explore our site. Whether you are an advanced collector hunting rarities, or someone just beginning to plan his collection, there are some things that we hope will interest you. A new Cartagena gold cobs page has been added, offering several rare dated issues as well as some research on the first Cartagena gold cobs. Several choice dated Bogotá two escudos have been listed here, including 1715 Fleet, Maravillas, and Mesuno coins. Several new Lima 8 escudos, including two Calico plate coins, have been added on the Lima gold cobs page. Some choice Maravillas silver is on the Eight Reales page. More gold from Nuestra Senora de la Luz is here. Those of you who come from collecting US silver dollars might want to look at our high-grade Pillar and Portrait 8 reales look here and here. Several new 8 reales are just listed. This series is currently one of the most undervalued in Spanish Colonials. Many collectors are just discovering the rarity and beauty of this short-lived 18th century coinage. Prooflike Pillars & Portraits are every bit as gorgeous as prooflike Morgan dollars! Please feel free to contact me regarding any item currently listed or with your want list. terravitan@aol.com or 480-595-1293.
1. GOLD COBS:
Ř this 1713 Mexico MXo J eight escudos from the 1715 Fleet. Struck from a Royal die on a huge (36 mm), round, centered planchet. NGC AU 55. Price on request.
Ř this DATED ornate cross Mexico 1711 eight escudos. One of three dated ornate cross 8 escudos known and with a Real 8 pedigree. The rarest of Mexican onzas. Available here.
Ø this choice Lima 1735 N eight escudos. This is the Calico plate coin (#311) for this rare date. Not a shipwreck coin, but a survivor of the Great Earthquake of 1746! $6950.
Ø this 1715 Fleet Mexican 8 escudos, a rare 1711 onza that is the Calico Plate coin for the ornate cross design (LA ONZA # 387). It pedigrees to Schulman's legendary "Spanish Galleon Treasure" Sale in November, 19'72 (lot #125). Original catalogue included. $6750
Ø this very choice Mint State Lima 1711 two escudos from the 1715 Fleet. Boldly struck on mirrored, nearly prooflike fields. 1711 is a "common" date for Fleet Limas, but this is an uncommon coin. One of the most attractive Fleet Limas that I've seen. Price on request.
Ø this choice Mexico 1699-1701 one escudo from the 1715 Fleet. The large, well detailed Charles II shield is clearly struck from a 1699 two escudos die. Near perfect centering on the reverse shows a choice box cross. $2850.
Ø these 1715 Fleet Bogota two escudos, 1705 and 1707. The 1705 is choice mint state coin, the 1707 is rare Fleet date displaying a bold 707 date. It is the best 1707 Bogie I have seen.
Ø this 1714 Mexico Mo J 8 escudos the Fleet. Mint state and lustrous!
Ø this mint state 1636 Bogota two escudos from the Mesuno wreck in Colombia $2350. Ø this rare full date 1597 Seville two escudos, a shipwreck coin from the Bahamas. $2750
2. SILVER COBS & INGOTS. The rarest item we are offering is a Mexican silver splash from the San Andreas, the 4th ship of the 1554 Flota that escaped the Texas coast only to flounder in the Northern Caribbean. A very rare 1622 Cartagena 8 reales from the Atocha with Mel Fisher cert comes in a close second. So does a 1628 Bogota 8 reales from the 1641 wreck of the Concepcion. A full date 1731 8 reales from the 1733 Fleet is worth a look. Most 1730-33 silver cobs offered as 1733 Fleet coins are not. Do not trust a 1733 Fleet coin that does not have a photocert from the original salvor. Generic or dealer certs are not reliable. This coin comes with Bill Wood's original photo-cert. An inexpensive and attractive full date 1731/0 Vliegenhart coin with original color cert has just been added. The ever popular VOC makes an appearance with a choice Amsterdam silver ingot from the Rooswijk (1740). A few inexpensive but attractive full date Mexican 8 reales from the Rooswijk are also being added.
Ø this 16(28) Bogota 8 reales from the 1641 wreck of the Concepcion $2150.
Ø this 1622 A Cartagena 1622 8 reales from the 1622 wreck of the Atocha. Sold
Ø this 1731 Mexican 8 reales from the 1733 Fleet's El Rubi with original salvor's certificate. Full date 1733 Fleet 8 reales with original salvor's photocerts are very hard to find. $465 Ø this 1731/0 Mexican 8 reales w/color cert from the wreck of the Vliegenthart $325. (scroll down to the seventh coin on the page) Ø this 1655 full date Mexican 8 reales from the wreck of the Maravilla. $585 (scroll down to 5th coin. A second 1655 from Marex is now available.)
Ø Special Item: Mexican silver splash with large Philip II tax stamp from the "1554 Plate Fleet". Very rare. $1795
Ø Special item: a DATED ornate cross Mexico 1711 eight escudos. One of three known and with a Real 8 pedigree. The rarest of Mexican onzas. Available here.
3. PORTRAIT SPANISH COLONIAL EIGHT ESCUDOS (1732-1824) We are trying to expand our offerings of high-quality Portrait escudos from the Spanish Americas, but exceptional pieces are very hard to find. My emphasis in these series has always been on quality, reflecting my personal preference for highly lustrous, well struck, very attractive, uncirculated coins. The gold and silver issues you will find offered are all NGC/PCGS/ANACS certified and grade choice uncirculated or among the finest known. No merely average, no low grade, no damaged, no ex-jewelry coins will ever appear on this site. While I personally do not like and many other collectors do not like to see their most prized coins sealed in plastic ("slabbed"), it is my sense of the marketplace that many collectors of portrait onzas and reales, especially those just beginning to form their collections, would like the added assurance of some 3rd party authentication & grading. Those who do not like their coins in plastic can of course easily “disencapsulate” them.
Our current listings in Portrait Gold :
Ø This Santiago 4 escudos, Ferdinand VI, 1750 J, recovered from Nuestra Senora de la Luz.
Ø this Santiago 8 escudos, Ferdinand VI, 1751 J, An absolutely spectacular deep prooflike, choice mint state eight escudos, without question the finest Santiago 1751's recovered from Nuestra Senora de la Luz-- the only one graded MS64 by NGC--and one of the most attractive Spanish Colonial onzas I have ever seen. Price on Request.
4. PILLAR AND BUST EIGHT REALES (1732-1821)
As I said in discussing Portrait gold, my personal preference in milled Spanish Colonial coins has always been for very lustrous, well struck, high grade pieces, choice uncirculated if possible, or at least among the finest know. I do not like and will not offer darkly, lightly circulated toned pieces or "sliders", even if they have found their way into mint state slabs.
Ø Mexico 8 reales, Carlos III, 1770 MF, lustrous globes & pillars with contrasting prooflike fields. NGC calls it a MS 62. Gilboy M-8-50. Calbeto 797 $3650. Click here .
Ø Mexico 8 reales, Carlos III, 1761 MM, lustrous globes & pillars with prooflike fields. Attractive peripheral toning. Choice Brilliant Uncirculated, Gilboy M-8-39 $4350 Click here.
Ø Mexico 8 reales, Carlos III, 1764 MF, NGC grades it MS 62. Gilboy M-8-44 $2750 here.
Ø Mexico 8 reales, Carlos III, 1777 FM, prooflike & lustrous NGC graded MS 61. $1350 Ø Mexico 8 reales, Carlos IIII, 1803 FT, NGC graded MS-62. $1250 Ø Mexico 8 reales, Carlos IIII, 1796 FT, Ch UNC but NGC graded AU 55. Ø Lima 8 reales, Carlos IIII, 1801 IJ, NGC graded MS-62 $1295 Ø Lima 8 reales, Carlos IIII, 1807 JP, NGC graded MS-63 $1680
> All our Portrait 8 Reales are here. New Page!
5. ANCIENT COINS My first loves when I started in numismatic in 1968 were Athenian tetradrachma and the fine style, wreathed tetradrachma of Greek Asia Minor that imitated them. Cities like Kyme and Myrina and Magnesia issued a very beautiful and ephemeral coinage in the period 155-145 BCE. This page may eventually evolve into a separate website. Click here to see some rare, high quality tetradrachma of Athens and these other Greek cities.
6. US COINS
Shipwreck US gold coins
listed so far include a choice & rare variety 1857 S SS Central
America $20, a 1855 S SS Republic $20, a 1834 Classic $5 from the SS
New York and 1843 O $10 eagle from that same wreck. Large photos and the full inventory are here.
7. BOOKS & CATALOGUES PERTAINING TO SHIPWRECK AND SPANISH COLONIAL COINS Please visit our numismatic and treasure catalogue page. There are some new and relisted items this summer. For those of you interested in Fleet gold, I especially recommend a copy of the 1972 Schulman SPANISH GALLEON TREASURE. It features over 870 gold cobs from the Fleet. If you are looking for a particular rare book or catalogue, ask me about it. I may have an unlisted duplicate.
8. WHO AM I? Many of us knew a famous treasure hunter whose motto was "Today is the day." An uncle of mine (Rup Gates) was a cartographer who became one of Mel Fisher's first partners. I am a historian (Ph.D.) and numismatist who fell in love with the tragic story of the 1715 Fleet. While living on Florida's Gold coast, I got to know the people of Real 8 and Treasure Salvors. Characters all, they were still gracious enough to let me dive with them on the treasure-laden sites of the Fleet. In those halcyon days, every July seemed to promise another "Carpet of Gold." Most of us cannot devote our lives to traveling the world and diving for treasure. What we can do is build a personal and tangible connection to tragic events like the loss the 1715 Fleet through the coins and artifacts we collect. Unless time travel becomes a reality, these coins will remain our best portals to the past. Today is the day to treat yourself to a piece of history.
WANT LISTS are welcomed. If you are
looking for Fleet material or other quality gold & silver
Spanish Colonials, you might
consider sending me a want list. Want lists get priority.
Want list clients will be notified before an item they are
seeking is listed on this site. By the way, each of gold cobs I sell comes with a
photo-certificate authenticating it, detailing its provenance, its
rarity, its provenience if known, and giving any other information
available about the coin.
Here is a sample photo-certificate.
My guarantee of
authenticity is absolute and without time limit. No one is
infallible, but I'm proud to say that I have been doing this for many
years longer
than PCGS or NGC and without a mistake. EAGERLY BUYING: Gold Cobs from the 1715 Fleet, especially Lima and dated Mexican escudos. Dated silver cobs from the 1715 Fleet & other shipwrecks. Gold & silver ingots from shipwrecks. Mint state Portrait gold (1732-1824). IF YOU HAVE QUALITY COB OR MILLED COINS TO SELL, YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE PAY 15- 20% IN SELLER'S COMMISSIONS at auction. I WILL PAY FULL MARKET VALUE FOR YOUR COINS. Call 480-595-1293 or email me at terravitan@aol.com.
I am a professional numismatist with four decades of experience studying and collecting the gold and silver coinage of the Spain's New World Empire. I find Spanish Colonial coinage an endlessly challenging and rewarding field of study. I enjoy helping people discover this fascinating area of numismatics. Getting started right is one of the keys. If you would like to build a significant collection, or just acquire few pieces of history, I am ready to help you learn and build your collection. Please email me at terravitan@aol.com or call me at 480-595-1293. Some personal reflections on how current difficult economic times may affect the numismatic markets are here.
Finally, if you've inherited or found some strange Spanish Colonial cobs or milled coins, and you would need some help identifying them, please see our new services page.
A newly added, spectacular double date 1712 Fleet Lima 8 escudos. Now sold.
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