On the 1500th day before the 300th anniversary of the 1715 Fleet disaster, we have heard from Mike Brown, who is working the Corrigan’s Beach site this summer. Here’s Mike with a minty 1714 two escudos from the Mexico City mint, as fresh as when it went into into the ocean 294 years ago.
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Mike Brown of Albany, GA, woke up on the morning of July 31, 2010 not realizing that he was about to make history. For it was on that day, the 295th Anniversary of the 1715 Fleet disaster that Mike found his place in Fleet history. While diving with Gold Hound Treasure Divers, off of Corrigan’s
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The 2011 Sunken Treasure Seminars begin next Monday, June 20, 2011 and will continue through Thursday, June 23, 2011. These popular seminars were first held in April of 1994. This year’s seminar topics include “Deep Water Technology”, “Major Discoveries on the 1715 Fleet in 2010”, “Gold and Silver Coins and Bars of the Spanish Fleet”,
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1714 Mexico 8 Escudo Die 9 or State type S found in 1964. This piece is a fully dated 1714 GRAT. The coin has wonderful surfaces, a nearly full shield and a well centered cross on the reverse. Note that the 1714 date (located on the reverse rather than the obverse) is full. The shape
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by Daniel Frank Sedwick When you look at Mexican cobs of the 1600s and 1700s, you may wonder how cob planchets were made, given their sometimes crazy shapes. We know from contemporary documents that an innovation at the end of the 1500s-in effect the invention of cobs-greatly sped up the coining process, specifically the planchet
Our treasure for June is a cache of silver reales from the Spanish colonial mints of Mexico City and Lima, found by Joel Ruth on a Florida beach after Hurricane Jeanne stormed through in September 2004.
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