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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Eduard, post: 2904418, member: 8959&quot;]This is one of the more significant spanish colonial coins in my collection. It is an 8 Escudos piece recovered from the wreck of the Nuestra Señora de La Luz, a spanish merchant ship which sank of the coast of Montevideo on the Rio de la Plata ca. 1750. </p><p><br /></p><p>The wreck was discovered around 1990, and an incredible treasure of spanish colonial coins, mostly Santiago, Chile mint 1750 and 1751 dated 8 escudos recovered, many in mint state. </p><p>The coins were sold via Sothebys (in 1991 if I recall). I bought this piece at that sale. Bidders were given the choice to have their coins cleaned of marine deposits if they wished, or in original as-recovered conditions. I chose to have mine in the condition it was after 200 years in the sea floor, with marine deposits.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is a very poor picture but it is the only one I have at the moment:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]700287[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]700288[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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