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Lima 8 & 4 escudos (mostly 1715 Fleet)
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
New from Spain!
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Last update: February, 2012 en Espanol
Welcome to Goldcobs.com! May I say first that it was a pleasure meeting with many of you at the Florida 2012 FUN Show. This will be a regular venue for Gold Cobs in conjunction with the 1715 Fleet Society. Celebrations and commemorations are being planned for the 2015 tercentenary of the 1715 Fleet disaster. Stay tuned for details! This month we have added a selection of new escudos from Bogota, Cartagena, Lima, and Mexico. Here is the Master-list. If you are interested in the finest NGC or PCGS certified Spanish Colonial escudos or reales, you have come to the right place. For more than 30 years we have been specialists in the gold cobs recovered from the Florida shipwrecks of the 1715 Fleet. We offer certified 1715 Fleet-era escudos & reales, plus post-Fleet gold cobs from all the New World mints (1622-1756). Please visit our new Site Map-Master List page for a comprehensive listing of what is currently available on this site . We hope it will help you navigate directly to the coins or ingots you are interested in. We also have added a list of Special Pages, mostly devoted to Fleet rarities, in the navigation to the left . Current highlights include these 1750 Lima ex La LUZ four escudos. This Lima 1712 Fleet 4 escudos is one of three known. If rare Fleet gold is to your liking, you might also want to visit this unique 1707/6 Bogota 2 escudos and this jeweled cross 1690's Mexico 2 escudos. A beautiful 1714 Mexico four escudos found by Moe Molinar in 1974 is right below the jeweled cross two escudos. Just listed are a selection of dorada plata ingots (misnamed Tumbagas) from the Los Mimbres wreck (circa 1527), now known to contain the earliest surviving treasure from Cortes' conquest of 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 two of the finest Colombian Charles IV eight escudos (1795 & 1797). We also offer silver ingots from the VOC East Indiamen Rooswijk and Slot ter Hooge are now available. We at Gold Cobs 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, 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. A brief discussion of why we strongly recommend certified Spanish Colonials is here. Please feel free to contact us regarding any item currently listed or with your want list. terravitan@aol.com or 480-595-1293.
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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.
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A group of NGC certified Colombian two escudos from the 1636 Mesuno shipwreck is here, certified as "Mesuno Treasure" by NGC.
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).
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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 are 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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