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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;SensibleSal66, post: 25668661, member: 115232&quot;]Okay. This one is a special theme, so please do your best and post a &quot;Shipwreck Era&quot; coin if you want. [ATTACH=full]1641715[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1641716[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1641717[/ATTACH] Examples.... Cobs, Reale&#039;s and others. Be creative. Argh!! Post &#039;em coins there matey! </p><p>&nbsp; Here is my 1783 2R coin from the famous shipwreck, The El Cazador. Here is some info. on the wreck. </p><p>&nbsp; The <i><b>El Cazador</b></i> (meaning <i>The Hunter</i> in English) was a Spanish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brig" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brig" rel="nofollow">brig</a> that sank in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Mexico" rel="nofollow">Gulf of Mexico</a> 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.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-penniesworth.net-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-penniesworth.net-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> On 20 October 1783 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III_of_Spain" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_III_of_Spain" rel="nofollow">Charles III of Spain</a> sent her on a mission to bring much-needed hard currency to the Spanish colony of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana_(New_Spain)" rel="nofollow">Louisiana</a> in order to stabilize the currency. The ship sailed to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracruz,_Veracruz" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracruz,_Veracruz" rel="nofollow">Veracruz</a>, Mexico, where she was loaded with approximately 450,000 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonial_real" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_colonial_real" rel="nofollow">Spanish reales</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-2" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-2" rel="nofollow">[2]</a> 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&#039;s 37,500 pounds of silver.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-penniesworth.net-1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-penniesworth.net-1" rel="nofollow">[1]</a> King Carlos III enlisted his most trusted captain, Gabriel de Campos y Pineda, to command the ship.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-artifact-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-artifact-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a> On 11 January 1784, she sailed for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" rel="nofollow">New Orleans</a>, and was never heard from again.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-4" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-4" rel="nofollow">[4]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-5" rel="nofollow">[5]</a> Spain’s attempts to locate the ship were unsuccessful and in June 1784, <i>El Cazador</i> was officially listed as missing at sea.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-artifact-3" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)#cite_note-artifact-3" rel="nofollow">[3]</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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