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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Paddy54, post: 2652379, member: 19250&quot;]Another find story.....yesterday&nbsp; I dropped&nbsp; in to a LCS, to pick up a few items that were on hold.</p><p>The owner had also purchased&nbsp; a large amount&nbsp; of coins from an estate sale.</p><p>As he was showing&nbsp; me a few items I saw 2 of these one dated on not &quot;this one&quot;&nbsp; I saw a sticker on the back and then threw out an offer,</p><p>he said sold.</p><p>Now I know the history behind&nbsp; this specimen&nbsp; as I do own a half reale from the same ship wreck .</p><p><br /></p><p>Now many here most probably&nbsp; know of this wreck......but what value would you put on this as a graded specimen&nbsp; from a salvage&nbsp; wreck.</p><p>true the obv. Is pretty rough&nbsp; but again it&#039;s&nbsp; graded, and somewhere&nbsp; near 27 grams of 200 +/- years old silver .</p><p>Who&#039;s&nbsp; history is extremely&nbsp; important&nbsp; to that of the U.S. being the country&nbsp; it is today.</p><p>The wreck&nbsp; is the El Cazador&nbsp; a very good and interesting&nbsp; read if you like history. The Spanish&nbsp; ship a &quot;Brig&quot; went down in a storm in the Gulf of Mexico in 1784. The ships cargo about&nbsp; 450,000&nbsp; Spanish reales!</p><p>The ship lost lasted until an August&nbsp; day in 1993, the day that a fishing boat named &quot;mistake&quot; net got hung up on a snag.</p><p>When the net came up instead of dumping a load of shrimp, it dumped&nbsp; a load of silver coins! </p><p>Now there&#039;s&nbsp; a lot more for those of you who haven&#039;t heard this story...should Google it....as the story is one that will educate you to the history of 3 very important&nbsp; countries during&nbsp; the&nbsp; time period&nbsp; of the wreck. Another&nbsp; juicy tid bit these 8 reales were used&nbsp; legal tender way before&quot; this country&quot; U.S.&nbsp; every minted a single&nbsp; coin.</p><p>I will&nbsp; wait to see what you what you would offer and then post mine.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[ATTACH=full]586976[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]586977[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Now one must remember&nbsp; that Silver&nbsp; unlike gold will crust over in salt water. These sort of looked like oreo&nbsp; cookies when they were found and had to be cleaned. Many were in clusters fused together&nbsp; due to the effects of sea water and silver.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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