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Spanish Shipwreck 4 Reales Silver Cob Coin 12.61g
Spanish Shipwreck 4 Reales Silver Cob Coin 12.61g
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  • Title:Spanish Shipwreck 4 Reales Silver Cob Coin 12.61g
  • Description: Spanish Shipwreck 4 Reales Silver Cob Coin 12.61g This coin was minted in Mexico. This coin measures approximately 31mm in diameter at widest point. For three Seasons Treasure & Shipwreck Recovery, Inc. (TSR) had contracted crews on the site of the 1715 Spanish galleon fleet wreck area near Sebastian Florida. TSR These coins that are left from that season are from one of the shipwrecks from that fateful night on July 30th 1715 111 ships went down during a hurricane. They were bound from Havana back to Spain filled with treasure from the new world. These coins were found on rec sites just South of Sebastian FL and were found through the use of extensive technology and machining to blow sand and recover such treasure. Their certificates of authenticity that accompany these are from the company that owns the site and were examined in depth by their archaeologists and experts. As well all of these matters were examined by the state of Florida experts before the division of the treasure was made between the parties. So what you hold in your hand and what you see for sale was last owned that fateful night when all the ships went down with billions of dollars of treasure. Attached will be some photographs of some of the recovery divers and some action shots of their recoveries being made.In the early morning hours of July 31, 1715, one of the richest Spanish treasure fleets ever assembled was in trouble. Carrying a fortune in gold, silver and jewels from Spain’s New World empire, the Fleet was trying to outrun an ominous storm pursuing it up the Florida Straits. The bulky treasure-laden galleons were not fast enough. By 2 a.m. 100 mile per hour winds, torrential rains and mountainous waves broke over the Fleet. A category 4 or 5 hurricane had caught the Spanish Treasure Fleet in the Florida Straits. They were trapped in the channel. They had nowhere to go. Eleven of the twelve ships in the Fleet, including all the treasure galleons were lost, either capsizing in deep water or tossed upon the reefs and sandy shores off of the Florida coast. More than a thousand men and women, crew and passengers perished with the ships in the fury of the hurricane. By dawn the next morning, the desolate beach was strewn with lifeless bodies and littered with wreckage. It was one of the worst sea disasters of all time.
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  • Estimated weight of package:8 oz
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    Spanish Shipwreck 4 Reales Silver Cob Coin 12.61g

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