Nothing flashy, just a VF-35 Mexico City Mint Spanish 8 Reales. Feel free to show off your old pillar dollars if you've got them.
Shipwreck Treasure, VOC Hollandia Wreck, Sank Scilly Isles 1743. Silver 8 Reales Spain, Philip V 1740. Provenance : Pedigreed to the Sotheby, Parke-Bernet auction of June 1972, with original lot-tags. Recovered from: Hollandia, sunk in 1743 off the Isles of Scilly, southwest of England. Hollandia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie; VOC) which wrecked on Annet, Isles of Scilly on 13 July 1743 causing 276 fatalities. The wreck was discovered in 1971 by Rex Cowan, a London attorney. This example is extremely fine for strike, and showing relatively few signs of immersion for the type. The reverse is very darkly toned
very nice! I like it alot.. is one of those pieces I keep saying I want but something else I need/want always seems to jump out 1st lol
