Our featured Treasure of the Month for November is this display of gold escudos, all recovered from the Corrigan’s Wreck site. Corrigan’s Beach is named after property owners Hugh Corrigan, Jr., and his brother, Pat. Located ten miles south of Sebastian Inlet, it is a very popular beach for finding treasure. The coins displayed here […]
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Representatives of the 1715 Fleet Society will be speaking on the subject of the upcoming 300th Anniversary of the loss of the 1715 Fleet at the DoubleTree Hotel Lake Buena Vista, Orlando, Florida on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 at 2:00 pm. This presentation will be one of several lectures sponsored by Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC
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Website Update: We’re in the final stages of the new 1715FleetSociety.com website redesign. All the content you’ve come to love from the original has been transferred to the new. We believe the new site will bring a fresh look to all the amazing imagery of coins and treasure archived on this site throughout the years.
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The 1715 Fleet Society will be sponsoring an educational exhibit featuring treasures and artifacts from the 1715 Fleet and other shipwrecks at the Pennsylvania Association of Numismatists Coin Show, October 23 – 25, 2014. The Fleet Society’s mission, in part, is to promote public awareness through education regarding the upcoming 300th Anniversary of the 1715
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The Loss of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet is an 8 page, full-color PDF. Download / View PDF
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Work continues on the redesigning of the 1715 Fleet Society website. This project has taken several months to complete. Due to the amount of material and the complexities of the original website, extra time and effort has been devoted to completing the project in the near future. Fleet Society Directors recently had an opportunity to
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The Treasure of the Month for October is a group of eight silver reales from the Joel Ruth Hoard found after Hurricane Jeanne in September 2004. This group includes eight reales from three different Spanish Colonial mints: Mexico City, Lima, and Potosí. A number of these coins were featured in an article which appeared in Treasure
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