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Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Philip III, assayer not visible, ex-Mendel Peterson collection.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Shipwreck - Silver Coins 1500s-1650s Start Price:120.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 225.00 USD
Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Philip III, assayer not visible, ex-Mendel Peterson collection.
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Mexico City, Mexico, cob 8 reales, Philip III, assayer not visible, ex-Mendel Peterson collection. 17.8 grams. Barely identifiable (nearly full shield, heavily pitted cross, toned from decades in a paper envelope) but important as one of very few coins to hit the market from this wreck, made possible only by virtue of the fact that the former Smithsonian curator (now deceased) collaborated with Teddy Tucker to find and salvage this wreck in 1969, and his collection was dispersed after his death, else this coin would reside permanently in Bermuda with the rest of the finds! Pedigreed to the Mendel Peterson, with special printed tag stating the pedigree. Recovered from: Warwick, sunk in 1619 off Bermuda