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Message:: [QUOTE="Eric the Red, post: 26512694, member: 118899"]My 1655 Piece of 8 complete with the "Shipwreck Effect"[ATTACH=full]1689999[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1690000[/ATTACH] From the Jupiter ShipwreckDateline: Sunk Late in 1659 or early 1660 Back in 1660 A Spanish aviso vessel (a kind of dispatch or advice boat, that is, a vessel designed not for warfare or carrying heavy cargo, but for delivering at top speed dispatches or advice, usually to the king or his government; aviso = “advice”) met its end along Jupiter, Florida’s east coast. It is called the Jupiter Wreck. A generation before Jonathan Dickinson’s landing in 1696, (Dickinson lived 1663–1722 and was a Quaker merchant from Port Royal, Jamaica),the original Indian inhabitants of the Jupiter-Hobe Sound area experienced one of the most significant contacts with Europeans anywhere on American soil. Up to this event, the Spaniards, who held north Florida, were unable to subjugate South Florida’s native American population on this rough-weathery coast. What was significant, was that the ship may have been carrying a form of plague, which may have led to the decimation of the native indigenous people of this area.[/QUOTE]