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GOLD COBS, mostly
from
shipwrecks
Gold cobs of Spanish America and
Spain
Gold cobs are the
original doubloons, the very treasure sought most by pirates. Struck by hand at
the mints of Mexico, Peru and Colombia, and also at mainland Spanish mints like
Seville and Toledo, gold cobs denoted extreme value even in their own day and
facilitated the movement of vast sums of money across the seas, where inevitably
many of them ended up. In fact, the single largest source of gold cobs remains
the Spanish 1715 Fleet off the east coast of Florida, which is where many of the
cobs you see here were found.
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Mexico City, Mexico
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Mexico, cob 2 escudos,
Philip V, assayer not visible (style of 1702-10), from the 1715 Fleet.
Nearly full shield with bold denomination II (vertically) to right,
off-center but nearly full "box-end" cross that dates it prior to the more
common coins of 1711-15, lovely lustrous yellow gold, AU. |
a061013051004 |
$2,250 |
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Bogotá, Colombia
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Bogotá, Colombia, cob 2 escudos, 166?R, Charles II.
Choice full cross with lots of contrasting sediment as from an unidentified wreck or hoard, clear 16 of date followed by base of another 6, the last digit off the planchet but must be a 1666-1669 since the first letter of the king's name (Charles II) is visible at about 1 o'clock on the shield side, which also features denomination-assayer II-R to right and a nearly full crown above the full and well-detailed shield, XF+. |
a060816111003 |
$1,975 |
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Bogotá, Colombia, cob 2 escudos, Philip V (ca. 1720), with mercury on surfaces as from the
Guadalupe-Tolosa (1724), with certificate.
Fascinating coin that at first looks polished from jewelry or perhaps even gold-plated silver, but closer scrutiny reveals that the surfaces are impregnated with mercury (which dissolves gold), for which these wrecks were known, the coin itself otherwise fairly normal, with full shield and full but doubled cross, VF+ for wear, pedigreed to the original Goldberg auction in which the only known coins from these wrecks were sold (and at the time they were encapsulated by NGC). |
a031016111004 |
$2,975 |
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Bogotá, Colombia, cob 2 escudos, 1740/39M, rare overdate.
Full but doubled cross and tressure, bold 0/9 of date (obvious overdate) with clear penultimate digit 4, choice full shield with F to left, toned AXF. |
a070808020001 |
Reduced! $1,975 |
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Bogota, Colombia, cob 1 escudo, Philip V, assayer S to right (ca. 1720). Choice full cross, nearly full shield with bold assayer, nice AXF with contrasting sediment in crevices. |
a061010081003 |
$1,475 |
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Spanish Mints
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Seville, Spain, cob 2
escudos, Philip III, (1)613, assayer not visible.
Clear date, full cross, top
half of shield only with full crown above and mintmark S to left, VF. |
a060907554002 |
$1,150 |
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