Treasure, World and U.S. Coin Auction #17 (April 29-30, 2015)

European steel closed helmet, 1600s-1700s. 1783 grams, roughly 15" x 13" x 8". Full head protection, with hinged visor and chin-guar...

Spanish brass cannon made in Barcelona, dated 1766, showing Charles III monogram, on antique replica wooden carriage. 105 lb (the carriage another 33

French cast-iron "eprouvette" mortar (signal/testing cannon), 1700s. 6500 grams, 6-1/4" tall and 4" in diameter. Very thick bas...

Small iron signal cannon, unique design, late 1700s-early 1800s(?). 2801 grams, 4" tall and 2-1/4" in diameter with 5-1/2" base and ...

Small bronze signal cannon, Spanish colonial, 1600s-1700s. 1839 grams, 3-3/4" tall and 3" in diameter. Typical piece with patinated dark ...

Large stone cannonball from the 1588 Spanish Armada found by commercial fishermen off the coast of Dover, England. 8 lb 12 oz, 5-1/2" in diame...

Stone cannonball from a 1588 Spanish Armada site off the Netherlands. 4 lb 2 oz, 4-1/2" in diameter. Typically very light for its size, with s...

Bronze cannonball with iron core, probably Spanish colonial (1600s-1700s), rare. 12 lb, 4" in diameter. Medium-sized ball with smooth and bras...

Small bronze cannonball found off the coast of Veracruz, Mexico, Spanish colonial (1600s-1700s), rare. 3 lb 7 oz, 3" in diameter. A rare compo...

Small iron cannonball ("1-1/4 pounder") for an "amusette" cannon, marked by finder with "CP" as from Crown Point, New ...

Medium iron cannonball ("12-pounder") from Fort Ticonderoga, New York, with British Naval broad arrow mark (rare), American Revolutionary ...

British "24-pounder" mortar shell from a battlefield in Savannah, Georgia, American Revolutionary War period (ca. 1780). 13 lb 10 oz, 5-1...

Small iron cannonball ("3-pounder") from Hudson Highlands, New York (Battle of Fort Montgomery), American Revolutionary War (ca. 1777). 2...

Medium iron cannonball ("6-pounder") from the Battle of Blackstock, SC, American Revolutionary War (1780). 6 lb 1 oz, 3" in diameter...

Iron "12-pounder" cannonball, American Revolutionary War period, found near Yorktown, Virginia (1781). 11 lb 11 oz, 4-1/2" in diamet...

American naval 32-pound "stand of quilted grapeshot," early 1800s, rare. 13,460 grams, 9-1/2" tall and 5-1/2" in diameter. Roun...

American naval "12-pounder" grenade shell from the Niagara River area of Canada, War of 1812 period. 6 lb 1 oz, 4" in diameter. Hol...

Large iron cannonball ("24-pounder") from Vicksburg, Mississippi, U.S. Civil War-era (1860s). 23 lb 7 oz, 6" in diameter. Solid and ...

Wooden artillery quoin, mid- to late 1700s. 1022 grams, 31" long. Before Gribeauval's reform of the French artillery system in 1765, which...

Naval artillery gunner's wooden linstock (for firing cannons), early 1800s, probably American (War of 1812). 452 grams, 25-1/2" long. A wo...