Our featured treasure for the month of November is this gold cob 8 escudos, 1699 R from the Spanish colonial mint of Lima, Peru. This example has all the characteristics of a superb specimen, good weight (27 grams), choice strike, well centered with no doubling, broad round flan, full legends, full pillars-and-waves and complete cross, […]
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Seems like there is a lot of news being made lately regarding shipwrecks in Florida. On October 11 we posted an article about an important court decision regarding the La Trinité which was discovered near Cape Canaveral in 2016. Here is an article about another shipwreck discovered by a construction crew while working on a road project
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Last August we posted a story about a recently located rare Real Eight Company Museum pamphlet that was found by Frank Noga (Member #1) of Eastlake, Ohio. As reported at that time this pamphlet was produced by the Real Eight Company to be used in conjunction with the Company’s museum which was located in Cape
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“Pieces of Eight” by Kip Wagner goes into production.
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On September 29, a US Magistrate Judge issued an important decision regarding a 17th century shipwreck just up the coast from where the remains of the 1715 Fleet are situated. The French ship “La Trinité” sank in about 30 feet of water over 450 years ago. Discovered in 2016 by Robert Pritchett of Global Marine
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Being a resident from Pennsylvania I can attest to the fact that we in the Keystone State do not have nearly as many genuine treasure tales as Florida. But here is one that has some historic support. The Dent’s Run Treasure is said to be lost in a remote section of North Central Pennsylvania. According
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Josh “Captain Redbeard” Scott (Follow @redbeardsrelics — instagram.com/redbeardsrelics)Link to Captain Redbeard’s original post on Instagram: instagram.com/p/CwRM5DwuOWU/ This is a wonderful surviving page from Theodor De Bry’s “Grand Voyages” from 1591! The volume this page came from goes into great detail describing the daily life of the Timucuan Native peoples. This example was carefully hand-painted in the
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The first sale of Real Eight Company gold coins (106 in all) from the 1715 Fleet is conducted by Henry Christensen, Hoboken, New Jersey.
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Here is an article that was sent to us by Fleet Society member Dave Crooks (Member # 7). All we can say to this story is “Unbelievable!”. Columbia May have Lost the Coordinates to San José Galleon shipwreck
Our Treasure of the Month for October is part of a larger hoard recovered by Mike Maguire after Hurricane Erin struck the east coast of Florida in August 1995. Erin made landfall near Vero Beach. Mike went out searching the beach in wind gusts of fifty to seventy-five miles per hour. Arriving at Seagrape Trail
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Recently we received an email from Fleet Society member Robert Abberger requesting our assistance. On December 26, 2022, two 1715 Fleet one escudos coins mounted in necklaces were stolen from his car along with other presents. Robert indicated that he was loading his car with gifts right in front of his porch when he went
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Josh “Captain Redbeard” Scott (Follow @redbeardsrelics — instagram.com/redbeardsrelics)Link to Captain Redbeard’s original post on Instagram: instagram.com/p/Cw5ThliuPwY/ Take a look at this brand new chest fresh in from one of my contacts in Prague! This is a very unique piece that I have only ever come across a couple of times in my search for rare artifacts.
The crew of the salvage vessel Virgalona recovers 216 gold coins at the Douglass Beach Wreck site near Fort Pierce, Florida. It is the largest amount of gold found in one day in over two decades.
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King Philip V of Spain marries (by proxy) Elizabeth Farnese of Parma. They met for the first time three months later.
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Tickets for the 2024 Conference & Meeting at Costa d’Este in Vero Beach (January 8-10) are now on sale to MEMBERS ONLY. All members are entitled to receive a 10% discount on ticket purchases. Links to purchase tickets have been emailed to all members. Tickets will go on sale to the general public on Monday, October
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Tickets for the 2024 Conference & Meeting at Costa d’Este in Vero Beach (January 9-10) will go on sale to MEMBERS ONLY on Friday, September 15 at 8:00 a.m. EST. All members are entitled to receive a 10% discount on ticket purchases. A link to purchase tickets at the discounted rate will be emailed to all members.
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The New York Times reported that Stack’s had been appointed by the Real Eight Company as exclusive agent to handle the sale of gold and silver coins recovered by that company. The sale was to take place on Friday, September 19, 1969 at the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York.
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Newspaper article from the Miami Herald reports that archaeologists have pinpointed the site of a Spanish camp of 1715 shipwreck survivors. The owner of the land, Robert McClarty, has given the site to the state in return for an agreement to build a museum there. The site is now occupied by the McClarty Treasure Museum.
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Image credit: Mel Fisher Museum, Sebastian HERE is a recent article By Tom Metcalfe (published September 7, 2023, on Live Science) that was sent to us that we thought might be of interest to our viewers. While the hypothesis advanced by the finders of this object is intriguing and certainly has merit, it is still
The governor of the Bahama Islands issues a royal proclamation pardoning all pirates who surrender before September 5, 1718. Henry Jennings who, together with 300 men seized 1715 Fleet treasure that had been salvaged by the Spanish, wisely turned himself in. He lived the rest of his life a respected gentleman of means.
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