2023 was another banner year for the Fleet Society with increases in almost every major category of analytics. Here’s a summary of the improvements that members enjoyed and the impact it had on the site and its growth throughout the year. Website Analytics In 2023, the 1715 Fleet Society website saw more than 15,000 new […]
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Hello Fleet Society Members, Craig here, web admin for 1715FleetSociety.com. You may have recently noticed we put a splash page on the site during which time the website content was inaccessible. That was a temporary measure we put in place while we performed website maintenance. Over the weekend, we took some time to clean the
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Happy New Year 2021! On Behalf of myself and the other Directors of the 1715 Fleet Society, I would like to wish everyone a Happy (and prosperous) New Year. It goes without saying that 2020 was an unprecedented year. The virus caught everyone by surprise, us included. What started out as a year with so
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National Geographic Society exhibits Spanish gold and silver from the 1715 Fleet. Explorers Hall, Washington, D.C.
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Hans Schulman has its last Real Eight Company auction. 253 lots of Fleet coins are offered, 102 of which are gold. New York City.
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Even though our Treasure of the Month for December has been out of production for over 50 years, it still makes a very nice gift. In fact it was a gift presented to me recently by Fleet Society member Frank Noga (Membership #1). It was such a nice present that I felt that it deserved
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Greetings. One of my designated duties as a Director of the 1715 Fleet Society is managing website content. Over the last nine years since our website was launched, I have attempted to provide interesting subject matter for our Fleet Society members and website visitors. For instance, we have regular features like our Treasure of the
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Out of the 2016 F.U.N. Coin Convention —this year held in Tampa, FL— comes this very interesting 8-reales piece. One of 70-some eights and fours which arrived at the FUN Show for sale … with links to Real-8 founder, Kip Wagner (see page-6) … this piece-of-eight is extremely appreciated by its new owner, Ben Costello of Washington, PA. It
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The “mother load” sale of Fleet gold, 878 gold coins, sold by Hans Schulman at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York. Among the coins sold were six Royals from the 1715 Fleet.
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Real Eight Company is dissolved after 23 years.
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Recently, we received a note from Fleet Society member, Augi Garcia (Membership # 3) informing us that there will be several educational presentations on Monday, November 16, 2020 at 3:00 pm EST in advance of a major auction to be held the following day by Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC. One of the three featured speakers
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Today is the 320th anniversary of the death of Charles II (1665-1700) the last Hapsburg ruler of the Spanish Empire. His death is of particular interest to scholars and aficionados of the 1715 Fleet. It was his death that sparked the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The Fleet of 1715 was indirectly related to this
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November 1, 1700. Charles II of Spain dies, precipitating the War of Spanish Succession (1701-14).
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November’s featured treasure is one of the rarest and coveted items ever recovered from the wreck sites of the 1715 Fleet—a gold Royal. Specifically, in this case, a 1713 eight escudos Royal from the Spanish colonial mint at Mexico City. So what makes this coin so desirable? Well, first and foremost, is its beauty. Nearly
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“Pieces of Eight”, the legendary book written about the Real Eight Company by its founder Kip Wagner, goes into publication.
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The first public auction of gold coins recovered from the 1715 Fleet shipwrecks off the coast of Florida by the Real Eight Company. Some of the best condition specimens were offered for sale. The coins are sold through the auction house of Henry Christianson, Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Hello Fleet Society readers. This is Craig, web admin for the society. You may have noticed a few changes we recently implemented with the goal of making the site more user-friendly and accessible. Here’s what we’ve been up to: Menu and Header To start, we added a scrolling menu. On desktops and tablets, the
Our Treasure of the Month for October is a departure from our usual treasure offerings. Unlike most of our featured treasures it is not something that can be held in one’s hand and studied up close. It is not made of gold or silver, is not a valuable gem or rare artifact. And, unlike most
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The crew of the salvage vessel Virgalona recovers 216 gold coins at the Douglass Beach Wreck site near Fort Pierce, Florida. It is the largest amount of gold found in one day in over two decades.
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Philip V marries Elizabeth Farnese of Parma by proxy. He saw her for the first time 3 months later. She exerted great influence over Spain’s foreign policy and was the de facto ruler of Spain from 1714 until 1746. She died on July 11, 1766.
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