January 24, 2024
Full Weight 1732 Cob 8 Reales from T'VLIEGENTHART ( Flying Hart ) shipwreck
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This is a beautiful COB 8 REALES weighing 28gms and with the full date 1732 showing clearly .There is no porousity or digs It was recovered from the wreck of the Dutch East Indiaman T'VLIEGENTHART or FLYING HART which sunk off Holland in 1735. It comes complete with a fine certificate signed by the leader of the salvage team and in a presentation box Vliegenthart, sunk in 1735 off Zeeland, the Netherlands The East Indiaman Vliegenthart (“Flying Hart” in Dutch) had just departed Rammekens for the East Indies when the deadly combination of a northeast gale, a spring tide and pilot error sent her into a sand bank behind her sister-ship Anna Catharina. The latter ship broke apart in the storm while the Vliegenthart, damaged and firing her cannons in distress, slipped off the bank and sank in 10 fathoms of water. All hands on both ships were lost. Contemporaneous salvage under contract with the Dutch East India Company was unsuccessful, but it did provide a piece of evidence—a secret map—that did not emerge from obscurity until 1977. Stemming from that, divers under the former London attorney Rex Cowan and John Rose discovered the wreck in 1981, and in 1983 they found their first coins, one of three chests of Mexican silver and Dutch gold coins (totaling 67,000 guilders or dollar-sized units) for the East India trade aboard the Vliegenthart.
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