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    Historical Images from 1715 Fleet Gold Coins, Part 1… Eight Escudos

    As a follow up to our previous posting in October 2017 titled Historical Images from the 1715 Fleet, we presented a number of images that we recently recovered from a large collection of documents and

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    December 4, 2017 No Comments

    Treasure of the Month – July 2016

    Last month, we searched the State of Florida Collection of Mexico City eight reales, looking for the one coin that stood out as exhibiting the best full and complete 1715 date. For July’s Treasure of

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    June 29, 2016 1 Comment
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    Treasure of the Month – March 2015

    The Treasure of the Month for March 2015 is this sharp little bracelet consisting of a replica of a Mexico eight escudos gold piece, and four Mexico silver reales. This bracelet was formerly owned by

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    March 1, 2015 4 Comments

    Numismatic Legacy of the 1715 Plate Fleet

    This article, by Phil Flemming and Ben Costello, was published in the January 2015 edition of The Numismatist, and the full text of the article is included below. Three hundred years ago, a Spanish treasure

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    February 21, 2015 1 Comment

    DATELINE: Washington, Pennsylvania

    Recently, the Fleet Society was privileged to receive several photographs depicting an advanced collection of silver and gold coins from the 1715 Fleet. The first photograph we received depicted a “run” of Mexico silver 8

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    December 28, 2014 1 Comment

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