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Lot of 10 natural emeralds, ex-Bobby Allison's Sunken Treasure museum. San Geronimo, sunk in 1751 of

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Lot of 10 natural emeralds, ex-Bobby Allison's Sunken Treasure museum. San Geronimo, sunk in 1751 of
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Lot of 10 natural emeralds, ex-Bobby Allison's Sunken Treasure museum. 9.50 grams total, about 3 to 10 carats each. Sizeable nuggets of green, mostly dark and some a bit translucent, with tan sediment all over, mostly rough in shape but one a typically hexagonal crystal, pictured on the cover (in the girl's hand) of the accompanying magazine about this find, which the accompanying certificate refers to as "wrecked about 1752 on a reef off the coast of Central America," later named specifically by Bobby to us personally as the San Geronimo of 1751. With Allison certificate (unsigned) and photos from his museum and of the cover of the April 1991 issue of Treasure magazine, which featured Allison and Carl Fismer and their finds. Recovered from: San Geronimo, sunk in 1751 off the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico