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from the 1715 Fleet
from the 1715 Fleet
from the 1715 Fleet
7 Special pages:
Bogota two escudos from the 1636 Mesuno shipwreck
(1732-1824)
SS New York & SS Republic
(research topic)
The 1715 Fleet Society celebrating the 300th anniversary. New website www.1715FleetSociety.com
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Last update: May 19, 2012 en Espanol
Welcome to Goldcobs.com! If you subscribe to the Plus Ultra quarterly, please see the cover story w/ photos of our visit to the Florida FUN show in association with the 1715 Fleet Society. FUN will be a regular venue for us. Come visit! Our next scheduled show is the US Mexican Numismatic Association convention in the Fall. This month we are adding new escudos from the mints of Cartagena, Lima, and Mexico. Here is the Master-list of everything now available. We take pride in offering the finest NGC and PCGS certified Spanish Colonial escudos & reales. For more than 30 years we have been specialists in the gold cobs recovered from the Florida shipwrecks of the 1715 Fleet. We offer a broad selection of gold and silver coins and ingots from all the Colonial New World mints. Recent additions to our inventory include these 1750 Lima four and eight escudos from the wreck of Nuestra Senora de La Luz. This Lima 1712 Fleet 4 escudos is one of three known. Here is a beautiful 1714 Mexico four escudos found by Moe Molinar in 1974, right above it, this rare 1690's Jeweled Cross two escudos. If you are interested in the early years of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, here are a selection of dorada plata ingots (misnamed Tumbaga bars) from the Los Mimbres wreck (circa 1527), now known to be the earliest surviving treasure from Cortes' conquest of Tarascan Central Mexico (1522-24). If gold cobs, shipwreck or otherwise, are not to your liking, we offer some of the finest mint state portrait 8 escudos and portrait 8 reales. We are now featuring these two choice mint state Colombian Charles IV eight escudos (1795 & 1797). We at Gold Cobs want to educate you about the coins that you are interested it. We will show you the best photos our modest photographic skills permit and give you in-depth, comprehensive descriptions of the coins and their history. Take your time and feel free to ask questions. Explore our site. Whether you are an advanced collector hunting rarities, or someone just beginning to plan his collection, there are some things here that we hope will interest you.
terravitan@aol.com or 480-595-1293.
terravitan@aol.com or 480-595-1293.
1. GOLD COBS from the New World (1680-1756):
Our Mexico 8 escudos are here, most from the 1715 Fleet. This remarkable MS64 Fleet 1714 onza is the highest graded Mexican onza for 1714 or any other date [sold].
The discovery 20 years ago of the wreck of Nuestra Senora de la Luz has revolutionized our understanding of the last years of cob coinage at Lima. Previously uncollectible issues like the 1750 onza and media onza are now available if rare. Mysteries remain, such as why the biggest 4 escudos issue in the history of the Lima mint occurred in the last month of 1750. Some of our Luz Limas are here and here and here, but others are not yet listed. Please inquire. terravitan@aol.com or 480-595-1293.
Rare Colombian gold cobs from the Cartagena mint like this 1633 CE are here. terravitan@aol.com or 480-595-1293.
A dozen years before Mexico City opened its first mint Cortes and his Conquistadors were melting Conquest treasure and casting it into crude ingots at make-shift field foundries. All of these ingots were recalled in the late 1520's and none were thought to have survived--until a wreck was discovered on the Los Mimbres shoals, a wreck of a ship that had sailed from Mexico in 1527-28. About 160 "golden silver" (dorada plata) ingots were recovered from the Los Mimbres wreck. Pictured above are the markings on one of these bars (M36), which tell us this bar was cast in Tarascan Michoacan, Mexico, in 1523-24 by one of Cortes' trusted veedors, Bernardino Vazquez de Tapia (Bvo). More of the story and some ingots for sale here. terravitan@aol.com or 480-595-1293.
2. PORTRAIT SPANISH COLONIAL 8 and 4 ESCUDOS (1732-1824)
Our Portrait 8 and 4 escudos are here .
Special item: Santiago 4 escudos, Ferdinand VI, 1750/5 So J. A choice mint state four escudos, called AU 58 by NGC because of the soft strike (but all 1749-50 Santiagos are weakly struck!) Without question one of the finest Santiago 1750's recovered from Nuestra Senora de la Luz. Rare issue, known only from the Luz shipwreck, and very rare with the strange 1750/55 dating error. NGC "1750/5 So J Luz Shipwreck AU 58". Available for $2450. Here. terravitan@aol.com or 480-595-1293.
More Portrait 8 escudos are here. This deep cameo-prooflike is one of the most attractive Mexico eight escudos I have ever seen. It pedigrees to the 1985 Norweb sale in Dallas where I was an unhappy underbidder. It resembles a piece of modern proof gold, yet it was a production strike at Mexico City 205 years ago. SOLD. terravitan@aol.com or 480-595-1293.
3. COINS & INGOTS FROM DUTCH VOC SHIPWRECKS
For those of you who like their treasure coins and ingots fresh from the ocean, here is an unopened treasure chest from the Rooswijk minutes after it came out of the English Channel. Alas, not for sale! We are in the process of adding new VOC material. This page for Rooswijk (1739) ingots, this page for the Slot ter Hooge (1724). [sold]
4. GOLD AND SILVER COINS FROM US SHIPWRECKS
We try to maintain an inventory here of choice US gold & silver from the SS Central America, SS Republic, SS New York, and SS Brother Jonathon. Most pieces sell immediately to want lists. Please email or call us with your want list.
This 1843 New Orleans eagle from the SS New York, the second best found on the wreck. NGC AU 55 (most US gold from this wreck slabbed only as "Shipwreck Effect"). SOLD
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