ATOCHA TREASURE - 8 REALE SILVER COIN - COA MEL FISHER

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IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO OWN A ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC SILVER COIN FROM THE SUNKEN TREASURE OF THE NUESTRA SENORA DE ATOCHA WITH IT'S CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY UP FOR AUCTION IS ONE AUTHENTIC, GRADE 4 ATOCHA 8 REALE SIVER COIN THE ABOVE PICTURES ARE OF THE ACTUAL COIN YOU WILL RECIEVE (COLOR VARIATION ON PICTURE IS ONLY TO CAPTURE DETAILS) HISTORY OF THE NUESTRA SENORA DE ATOCHA On September 4, 1622 the Tierra Firme flotilla of twenty-eight ships left Havana bound for Spain. The heavily armed Nuestra Se�ora de Atocha sailed as Almirante, or rear guard, of the flotilla, following the others to prevent an attack from behind the fleet. With it was carried the wealth of an empire; Silver from Peru and Mexico, gold and emeralds from Colombia, pearls from Venezuela. Each ship carried its crew, soldiers, passengers, and all the necessary materials and provisions for a successful voyage. The following day, the fleet found itself being overtaken by a hurricane as it entered the Florida straits. By the morning of September 6th, eight of these vessels lay broken on the ocean floor, scattered from the Marquesas Keys to the Dry Tortugas. In them were the treasures of the Americas, and the untold stories of scores of Spanish sailors, soldiers, noblemen, and clergy. The Nuestra Senora de Atocha sank with 265 people onboard. Only five -- three sailors and two slaves -- survived by holding on to the stump of the mizzenmast, which was the only part of the wrecked galleon that remained above water. Rescuers tried to enter the drowned hulk, but found the hatches tightly battened. The water depth, at 55 feet, was to great to allow them to work to open her. For the next 60 years, Spanish salvagers searched for the galleon, but they never found a trace. It seemed she was gone for good. In 1969, Mel Fisher and his Treasure Salvors crew began a relentless, sixteen year quest for the treasure of the Atocha. In 1973, three silver bars were found, and they matched the weights and tally numbers found on the Atocha�s manifest, which had been transcribed from the original in Seville. This verified that Fisher was close to the major part of the wrecksite. In 1975, his son Dirk found five bronze cannon whose markings would clinch identification with the Atocha. On July 20, 1985, Kane Fisher, captain of the salvage vessel Dauntless, sent a jubilant message to his father�s headquarters, "Put away the charts; we�ve found the main pile!" Ecstatic crew members described the find as looking like a reef of silver bars. Within days, the shipper�s marks on the bars were matched to the Atocha�s cargo manifest, confirming Kane�s triumphant claim. At long last, the wreck�s "motherlode" had been found -- and the excavation of what was widely referred to as the "shipwreck of the century" began. SPECIFICATIONS FOR THIS COIN ARE: COIN #: 85A-133031 DENOMINATION: 8 REALE MINT: POTOSI ASSAYER: NV GRADE: FOUR (4) REIGN: PHILIP III WEIGHT: 18.80 SEE ABOVE PICTURES OF THIS COIN AS DETAIL WILL VARY FROM COIN...TO...COIN SPANISH COLONIAL SILVER REALES COIN MINT OF MANUFACTURE: Twelve Spanish colonial mints, Mexico, Santo Domingo, Lima, La Plata, Potosi, Panama, Cartegena, Bogota, Cuzco, Guatemala, Santiago, and Popayan produced a total of five different types of silver reales coins, pillar, shield, pillar and waves, milled pillar, and milled bust during Spain's almost 300 years of colonial rule. The information provided should help in the identification of Spanish colonial silver reales coins by coin type, time period, and mint of manufacture. THIS AUTHENTIC 8 REALE SIVER COIN IS A STUNNING PIECE OF HISTORY, A RARE COLLECTORS ITEM, A GREAT GIFT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS, A CONVERSATION PIECE, A PIECE OF SUNKEN TREASURE THAT WAS UNDISTURBED FOR ALMOST 400 YEARS, AND SO MUCH MORE..... IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY, DO NOT LET IT SLIP AWAY THIS COIN IS NOT FABRICATED FROM RECOVERED SILVER FROM THE WRECK,,,IT IS AN ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC COIN ABOUT MULTIPLE ITEMS: Many of my... read more

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