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Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Charles II, assayer not visible, encrusted onto a chunk of crud.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Shipwreck - Silver Coins 1660s-1740s Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:125.00 - 200.00 USD
Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Charles II, assayer not visible, encrusted onto a chunk of crud.
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Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Charles II, assayer not visible, encrusted onto a chunk of crud. 72.4 grams. Worn but solid coin with off-center cross showing, darkly toned, the other side completely embedded in brown-orange sediment with rounded cavity where there used to be an iron cannonball. Recovered from: Association, sunk in 1707 off the Scilly Isles, southwest of England