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Mexico City, Mexico cob 8 reales, (1)715(J) very rare and popular provenance from The Whydah Wreck

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Shipwreck - Silver Coins 1660s-1740s Start Price:8,000.00 USD Estimated At:10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD
Mexico City, Mexico cob 8 reales, (1)715(J) very rare and popular provenance from The  Whydah Wreck
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Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, (1)715(J). S-M22; KM-47; CT-744. 25.64 grams. One of the most important shipwreck silver coins ever, as providing a visible link between the 1715 Fleet and the only documented pirate shipwreck to be salvaged in our time, for this piece shows a clear 1715 date (the 15 bold) next to a nearly full crown in alignment with the axis of an attractively urn-shaped flan with flat bottom, bulbous body and narrow neck, the nearly full cross-lions-castles on the other side at nearly a 45-degree angle to the flan shape, typically flat elsewhere but with only a hint of surface corrosion. Only a few Whydah coins have hit the market, fetching high prices to match the popularity and importance of the wreck, each coin once given as a present to an investor as opposed to being sold by the salvager, Barry Clifford, who maintains a strict policy of keeping the treasure intact and archeologically conserved and presented in his excellent museums on Cape Cod. In the past we have noted a connection between these Whydah coins and the 1715 Fleet, but none shows the link better than this 1715-dated Mexican cob 8R. Barry continues to salvage the Whydah to this day, and aspires to hit an Atocha-style "mother lode" in the near future. With original (hand-signed) Clifford certificate #107960 plus artifact card from 1989. Recovered from: Whydah, sunk in 1717 off Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

Article:
Captain Sam Bellamy and the Whydah: The Fateful Decisions that Brought Spanish 1715-Fleet Treasure to the Shores of Cape Cod.