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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;the collector, post: 375744, member: 6102&quot;]Hi! i just won a coin that i&#039;ve always wanted and i would like to share it and its history <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p style="text-align: center">Here it is:</p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center">One of the few Southern African shipwrecks that yielded 16th century Spanish Silver Pieces of Eight was the Portuguese merchantman <i>Santiago</i> that was lost between Mozambique and Madagascar in <b>1585 </b>while the Spanish empire was at the zenith of its global domination.</p> <p style="text-align: center">This relatively obscure wreck sank on a reef at night due to pilot error, following which the captain and crew absconded with the one useable lifeboat, leaving some 400 or more passengers to perish on the wreck. The <i>Santiago </i>was found again and salvaged in the late 1970s by Ernest Erich Klaar and eventually yielded silver cobs of both Spain and Spanish America (particularly the mints of Seville and Mexico).</p> <p style="text-align: center">This shipwreck is also numismatically notable as one of only two wrecks (along with the Atocha of 1622) to have produced the extremely rare cobs of the Panama mint.</p><p>The coin is a 23 gram silver Piece of Eight (Eight Reale) from the Mexico mint from the period of Philip II (1556-1598)</p><p><br /></p><p>Have a guess how much i paid for it<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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