Shipwreck Era Saturday!! Post yours as well...

Hello all. It's a thread called "Shipwreck Era Saturday!!". A thread about all coins, tokens or even medals that are from a Shipwreck or from that era.
Examples.... Cobs, Reale's and others. Be creative. Argh!! Post 'em coins there matey!
Here is my 1783 2R coin from the famous shipwreck, The El Cazador. Here is some info. on the wreck.
The El Cazador (meaning The Hunter in English) was a Spanish brig that sank in the Gulf of Mexico in 1784. In the 1770s the Spanish Louisiana Territory’s economy was faltering due to paper money that was not backed by silver or gold. Carlos III, King of Spain, decided to replace the worthless currency with valuable Spanish silver coins.[1] On 20 October 1783 Charles III of Spain sent her on a mission to bring much-needed hard currency to the Spanish colony of Louisiana in order to stabilize the currency. The ship sailed to Veracruz, Mexico, where she was loaded with approximately 450,000 Spanish reales.[2] To be more precise, she was loaded with silver Spanish coins, mostly 8 reales, “Pieces of Eight,” It carried 400,000 silver pesos and another 50,000 pesos worth of smaller change, of various dates. At one ounce to the peso, and 12 troy ounces to the pound, that's 37,500 pounds of silver.[1] King Carlos III enlisted his most trusted captain, Gabriel de Campos y Pineda, to command the ship.[3] On 11 January 1784, she sailed for New Orleans, and was never heard from again.[4][5] Spain’s attempts to locate the ship were unsuccessful and in June 1784, El Cazador was officially listed as missing at sea.[3
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Oh! I forgot the idea for this thread. It came to me after watching the movie, "The Vanishing". Anyone see it? It's a British film on streaming TV< Forgot the App though right off the top of my head.
It's about treasure. Bars of Gold..... Got your attention?
The Vanishing (2018 film) - Wikipedia

 

Information on this lovely new addition coming tomorrow.

 

The entire mintage of the East India Company 1808 10 cash coins was lost in the Admiral Gardner shipwreck, which was recovered in the 1980s. They look pretty good for having been in the ocean for 170+ years. I got this one recently at my LCS for a pittance.

 

Another East India Co. ten cash coin from the wreck of the Admiral Gardiner.

 

It's not Jonas in a whale's stomach ! It's Ahab in Jaws mouth! Hard to be in there without a "shipwreck"

 

Here is my only shipwreck coin

 

I have been looking for a cool East India Company coin, particularly as I assemble a varied India collection to share with my Indian coworkers, who find this fascinating. I may have to search for one at a future show.

 

I have read somewhere that the barrels that were filled with coins were also filled with wax to avoid corrosion during shipping.

 

Matthew Bolton's Soho Mint was well known for doing that, but the practice of sealing barrels with wax goes back to Roman times.

 

Yeah, I wish they would name the shipwreck as well. Why wouldn't they?

 

I would like to participate, but when was the ”Shipwreck Era?”

 

Excellent posts, all. I think I've posted the Otho before (pretty sure there was one shipwreck Saturday), but here's the Galba, another probable shipwreck (or sea) find.

Galba - 68-69 AR Tetradrachm - Antioch - Prieur 100, RPC 4198 28mm, 10.0g (probable sea find)







Someone on Numisforums was asking if the very similar red concretions on their solidus was the result of being underwater. The question went unanswered, but I wonder if this budget Zeno solidus was an ex-shipwreck coin? It'd help explain it being unusually banged up.