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Mexico City, Mexico, pillar 8 reales, Philip V, 1741MF, ex-St. Geran (1744), mounted in silver plate

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Mexico City, Mexico, pillar 8 reales, Philip V, 1741MF, ex-St. Geran (1744), mounted in silver plate
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Mexico City, Mexico, pillar 8 reales, Philip V, 1741MF, ex-St. Geran (1744), mounted in silver plated bezel. 35.29 grams total. Corroded yet fully detailed example loosely mounted in vintage Aquarius bezel, rare provenance (a French slave ship carrying colonists to Mauritius and the inspiration for the famous 1788 French novel, Paul et Virginie by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre). From the St. Geran (1744), with old card. Coin recovered from:)St. Geran, sunk in 1744 off Mauritius, east of Africa