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COLOMBIA, Cartagena, cob 8 reales, 1621 A, extremely rare, PCGS VF details / saltwater damage (Dry T

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COLOMBIA, Cartagena, cob 8 reales, 1621 A, extremely rare, PCGS VF details / saltwater damage (Dry T
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COLOMBIA, Cartagena, cob 8 reales, 1621 A, extremely rare, PCGS VF details / saltwater damage (Dry Tortugas wreck label), Oceans Odyssey Plate Coin, Boletín Numismático Cover Coin. Restrepo-M41.1; S-C2; Cal-1229; KM-3.2. 12.68 grams. Very broad flan exhibiting a choice full cross-lions-castles with all-important 21 of date at 11 to 12 o'clock, the nearly full shield equally well detailed with clear assayer •A• to right inside PHIL- of king's name, most of crown at top, mintmark not visible but known to be RN to left (struck without denomination), attractively toned over moderately corroded surfaces throughout. This famous coin was the first to be identified as the extremely rare first date of the Cartagena mint (and therefore Colombia’s first 8 reales), and it is widely acknowledged as the finest of just five known, only four of which are clearly dated (the fifth identified by researcher Herman Blanton by die details). All five coins were lost on the 1622 Fleet, four from the Atocha but this one from the "Dry Tortugas wreck," which has been identified as the Buen Jesús y Nuestra Señora del Rosario (not to be confused with another Rosario in the Fleet that was saved in its time). This coin was first identified by collector Samuel Zucker in a pair of 2005 articles in Coin World and PLVS VLTRA newsletter. While the 1621 reverse die has been seen on only five coins, Zucker did identify several other Cartagena coins from the same obverse die struck in 1622, crucially lacking a pomegranate in the shield as opposed to very similar 1622 issues WITH pomegranate that Jorge Proctor has proven were made in Bogotá (Boletín Numismático no. 105, 2nd semester 2018). In any case, the present coin is so important as the very first “dollar” coin of Colombia that it has been featured in many publications and even a series of Colombian postage stamps, examples of which accompany this lot.
. With large packet containing an official folio of Colombian postage stamp plate blocks (sixteen stamps) from December 2021 showing important numismatic items including this coin, plus publications in which this coin was featured (Oceans Odyssey 3, ed. by Greg Stemm and Sean Kingsley, 2013; Boletín Numismático no. 110, second semester 2021; and el malpensante no. 236, December 2021), in addition to original Seahawk certificate 91-1A-2081.0099 and Sedwick photo-certificate, also featured in a DailyMail.com online article of April 4, 2013, by Hugo Gye. Recovered from: "Dry Tortugas Wreck," sunk ca. 1622 west of Key West, Florida
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