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This page focuses on all things 1715 Fleet-related — including our regular Treasure of the Month feature, This Day in Fleet History posts, tidbits from the Fleet Society Archives, new recoveries, and more.

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Straps for Cash

by Daniel Frank Sedwick When you look at Mexican cobs of the 1600s and 1700s, you may wonder how cob planchets were made, given their sometimes crazy shapes. We know from contemporary documents that an

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June 1, 2011 No Comments

June 2011 Treasure of the Month

Our treasure for June is a cache of silver reales from the Spanish colonial mints of Mexico City and Lima, found by Joel Ruth on a Florida beach after Hurricane Jeanne stormed through in September

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June 1, 2011 No Comments

DATELINE: Treasure Coast, Eastern Florida

We have all heard of the coastal region of eastern Florida from Sebastian to Miami referred to as the “Treasure Coast”. Every wonder who came up with the name “Treasure Coast”? Visit our Articles Page

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May 19, 2011 No Comments

DATELINE: Merritt Island, Florida

On the first anniversary of his death we want to remember our friend Lou Ullian, shown here (on the right) with fellow Real 8 members Del Long and John Jones. John (in the center) is still

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May 16, 2011 No Comments
1715 Fleet Society - Lou Ullian Letter 2

1715 Mexico 8 Escudo

1715 Mexico 8 Escudo found in 1964. This coin is a fully dated 1715. The quality of the photograph is rather poor and does not do the coin justice. It is round with a full

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May 12, 2011 No Comments

1715 Mexico 8 Escudo

1715 Mexico 8 Escudo found in 1964. This coin is a fully dated 1715. The quality of the photograph is rather poor and does not do the coin justice. It is round with a full

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May 12, 2011 No Comments

DATELINE: West Melbourne, Florida

Del Long, one of the last original members of the Real 8 Company, has died in Florida at 87. An obituary published in Florida Today is here. An article from 1965 will appear soon in

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May 4, 2011 No Comments

May 2011 Treasure of the Month

Our first-ever featured treasure is this dazzling array of Fleet-recovered gold escudos from the Spanish colonial mints of Mexico City and Lima. Served up on a porcelain dish (also recovered from a Fleet wreck site),

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May 1, 2011 No Comments

Two Archaeological Sites in Brevard County, Florida,

Article by Hale G Smith from the Florida Anthropological Society Publications, No. 1 Gainesville: University of Florida, 1949. This article is referenced in the History of the Real Eight Company Through Documents and Letters, also on

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April 30, 2011 No Comments

Spanish Contacts with the AIS (Indian River) Country

This narrative by Charles Dana Higgs was read at the archaeology session of the annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society, March 6, 1942. This article is referenced in the History of the Real Eight Company Through Documents

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April 29, 2011 No Comments

1712 Lima 8 Escudo

1712 Lima 8 Escudo found in 1964. This is a rather exquisite coin with wonderful surfaces and sharply struck details. The obverse clearly shows two dates although the photograph does not completely show the full

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April 12, 2011 No Comments
1710 Lima 8 Escudo

1710 Lima 8 Escudo

1710 Lima 8 Escudo found in 1975. The specimen shows a well centered sharply struck double date. On the obverse the Pillars and Waves are rather high allowing a substantial portion of the legend to

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March 12, 2011 No Comments

Lou Ullian Journal Letter

March 17th 2010 letter authored by Louis J. Ullian original Real 8 member describing a journal he kept of Real 8 activity from 1960 to 1965. A sample of the journal contents is shown below.

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February 5, 2011 No Comments

Pieces of Eight Letter

July 2nd 1998 letter from original Real Eight member Kip Kelso to an attorney from Vero Beach Florida. It appears that Kip Kelso was seeking legal advice because the book “Pieces of Eight”, published in

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January 5, 2011 1 Comment

DATELINE: Lake Worth, Florida

The 2011 Sunken Treasure Seminars begin next Monday, June 20, 2011 and will continue through Thursday, June 23, 2011. These popular seminars were first held in April of 1994. This year’s seminar topics include “Deep

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June 15, 2011 No Comments
1715 Fleet Society - Lou Ullian Letter 1

1714 Mexico 8 Escudo Die 9

1714 Mexico 8 Escudo Die 9 or State type S found in 1964. This piece is a fully dated 1714 GRAT. The coin has wonderful surfaces, a nearly full shield and a well centered cross

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June 12, 2011 No Comments

Straps for Cash

by Daniel Frank Sedwick When you look at Mexican cobs of the 1600s and 1700s, you may wonder how cob planchets were made, given their sometimes crazy shapes. We know from contemporary documents that an

Read More
June 1, 2011 No Comments

June 2011 Treasure of the Month

Our treasure for June is a cache of silver reales from the Spanish colonial mints of Mexico City and Lima, found by Joel Ruth on a Florida beach after Hurricane Jeanne stormed through in September

Read More
June 1, 2011 No Comments

DATELINE: Treasure Coast, Eastern Florida

We have all heard of the coastal region of eastern Florida from Sebastian to Miami referred to as the “Treasure Coast”. Every wonder who came up with the name “Treasure Coast”? Visit our Articles Page

Read More
May 19, 2011 No Comments

DATELINE: Merritt Island, Florida

On the first anniversary of his death we want to remember our friend Lou Ullian, shown here (on the right) with fellow Real 8 members Del Long and John Jones. John (in the center) is still

Read More
May 16, 2011 No Comments
1715 Fleet Society - Lou Ullian Letter 2

1715 Mexico 8 Escudo

1715 Mexico 8 Escudo found in 1964. This coin is a fully dated 1715. The quality of the photograph is rather poor and does not do the coin justice. It is round with a full

Read More
May 12, 2011 No Comments

1715 Mexico 8 Escudo

1715 Mexico 8 Escudo found in 1964. This coin is a fully dated 1715. The quality of the photograph is rather poor and does not do the coin justice. It is round with a full

Read More
May 12, 2011 No Comments

DATELINE: West Melbourne, Florida

Del Long, one of the last original members of the Real 8 Company, has died in Florida at 87. An obituary published in Florida Today is here. An article from 1965 will appear soon in

Read More
May 4, 2011 No Comments

May 2011 Treasure of the Month

Our first-ever featured treasure is this dazzling array of Fleet-recovered gold escudos from the Spanish colonial mints of Mexico City and Lima. Served up on a porcelain dish (also recovered from a Fleet wreck site),

Read More
May 1, 2011 No Comments

Two Archaeological Sites in Brevard County, Florida,

Article by Hale G Smith from the Florida Anthropological Society Publications, No. 1 Gainesville: University of Florida, 1949. This article is referenced in the History of the Real Eight Company Through Documents and Letters, also on

Read More
April 30, 2011 No Comments

Spanish Contacts with the AIS (Indian River) Country

This narrative by Charles Dana Higgs was read at the archaeology session of the annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society, March 6, 1942. This article is referenced in the History of the Real Eight Company Through Documents

Read More
April 29, 2011 No Comments

1712 Lima 8 Escudo

1712 Lima 8 Escudo found in 1964. This is a rather exquisite coin with wonderful surfaces and sharply struck details. The obverse clearly shows two dates although the photograph does not completely show the full

Read More
April 12, 2011 No Comments
1710 Lima 8 Escudo

1710 Lima 8 Escudo

1710 Lima 8 Escudo found in 1975. The specimen shows a well centered sharply struck double date. On the obverse the Pillars and Waves are rather high allowing a substantial portion of the legend to

Read More
March 12, 2011 No Comments

Lou Ullian Journal Letter

March 17th 2010 letter authored by Louis J. Ullian original Real 8 member describing a journal he kept of Real 8 activity from 1960 to 1965. A sample of the journal contents is shown below.

Read More
February 5, 2011 No Comments

Pieces of Eight Letter

July 2nd 1998 letter from original Real Eight member Kip Kelso to an attorney from Vero Beach Florida. It appears that Kip Kelso was seeking legal advice because the book “Pieces of Eight”, published in

Read More
January 5, 2011 1 Comment

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