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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lordmarcovan, post: 25997326, member: 10461&quot;]Here is a ca. 1665-1682 Mexico City 8-reales “cob” salvaged from the 1682 <i>Johanna</i> shipwreck. But I no longer own it.&nbsp; The East Indiaman ship <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_(East_Indiaman)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johanna_(East_Indiaman)" rel="nofollow">Johanna</a></i> sank off the tip of South Africa in 1682 and was salvaged 300 years later, in 1982.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/img_9469-png.1642043/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Presently the only shipwreck coin in my collection is this gold <a href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/351313/coins-world-australia-1877-s-gold-shield-sovereign-of-queen-victoria-from-the-1881-rms-duoro-shipwreck" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/351313/coins-world-australia-1877-s-gold-shield-sovereign-of-queen-victoria-from-the-1881-rms-duoro-shipwreck" rel="nofollow">1877 Sydney mint Australian sovereign</a> which was salvaged from the 1882 <i>RMS Duoro </i>shipwreck, which lay 1,500 feet deep in the Atlantic.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/img_9470-jpeg.1642044/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was struck at the Sydney mint in 1877 and was part of the cargo of the British <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Douro" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Douro" rel="nofollow">Royal Mail steamship <i>Douro</i></a>, which sank in a nighttime collision with the Spanish ship <i>Yrurac Bat</i> off Cape Finisterre near the Spanish and Portuguese coast, on the evening of April 1, 1882.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><b>RMS Duoro.</b></i></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/img_9092-jpeg.1634558/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>All of <i>Duoro</i>’s passengers and 32 of her crew were saved, but the captain and five of his officers- and the ship’s treasure of gold coins and bullion- sank with <i>Douro</i> in 1,500 feet of water. 53 people aboard the Spanish ship also perished when it too sank.</p><p><br /></p><p>The wreck was found in 1993 and salvage operations were completed by 1996. There were some 28,000 gold coins brought up from the <i>Douro</i> wreck. Most were gold sovereigns, but there were also some rare Brazilian and Portuguese coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find shipwreck coins fascinating. I guess there’s the natural appeal of a historical gold coin here, but also some touches of romance, tragedy, and adventure. To me, it would have been a lovely enough coin anyway, but the added history behind the shipwreck pedigree made it irresistible, so I threw caution to the wind and did what I had to do to beat the competition and win the auction in which I acquired it.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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