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| Lot 27 in the Sedwick Treasure Auction, No. 29. |
It looks like this Lima 8-escudo will be one of the top gold coins in the current Sedwick auction.
Here is the lot description for lot 27.
Lima, Peru, cob 8 escudos, 1703H, HISPAN variety, rare, NGC MS 63, finest known in NGC census, ex-1715 Fleet (designated on special label), ex-Pullin. S-L25a; KM-38.1; Cal-2110. 27.01 grams. Perfectly centered on a very broad flan with choice full central details (pillars-and-waves and cross-lions-castles) and full legends (minor doubling here and there), lightly red-toned all over, fully deserving of its rank atop just four entries in the NGC census. Curiously, the Lima 8E of 1703 come in four varieties in terms of how the cross-side legends end (ISPA, HISPA, HISPAN and HISPANIA) and this particular variety with HISPAN (Tauler #219a) is the only one missing in Calico's La Onza (2004). NGC #5935106-001. From the 1715 Fleet, pedigreed to the John Pullin collection.
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Dan B. sent some more photos of encrusted objects from Treasure Coast shipwreck sites. Here is what he said about them.
I got around to taking a few more photos of my conglomerates. I will mention that these things degrade quickly once they have been removed from the water. I had the choice to treat them with ospho and paint them for preservation, but it colors them flat black which is undesirable for me. I like them to look like they did when they came out if the water.First pictures is of a grenade. You can see the wooden cork top left that would hold the fuse and keeps the contents dry.Next is remnants of rope and some more spikes.Last photo is what the grenade looked like when made.
Dan B
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| Encrusted Object with Grenade Fuse. Photo by Dan B. |
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| Encrusted Objedcts. Photo by Dan B. |
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| Encrusted Object Photo by Dan B. |
Encrusted Objects.
Photo by Dan. B.
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| Grenade As It Would Have Originally Looked. Photo submitted by Dan B. |
Thanks Dan.
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Here is an interesting 1965 article by Carl Clausen on the items recovered up to that time on the Douglass Beach wreck.
That is an old paper, but you might enjoy the site map and description of finds if you haven't seen it before.
One of the things I find interesting is the contrast between salvage finds from the submerged wreck and beach finds.
Of course there is the common observation that the beach finds are predominated by Mexico minted half reales. I've commented before on what appears to be a disparity between the predominance of half reales and other small denomination cobs found on the beach compared to the typically larger denomination cobs found on the wrecks. I've also presented some theories to explain that apparent discrepancy.
I read somewhere that it seems there was a jeweler on board that ship, and unfinished pieces being fashioned from silver have been found on the beach.
The encrusted Christ figure that I showed not long ago came from Douglass Beach as well.
Raw gold nuggets were also found on Douglass Beach. I've showed them once in TreasureBeachesReport.blogspot.com. I haven't read or heard of others, but would expect that more nuggests were found either on the wrecks or on the beach.
That nugget really deserves a better picture - maybe sometime in the future.
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| Source: MagicSeaWeed.com. |
Nothing exciting in the forecast.
Happy hunting,
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