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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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Lima, Peru
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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, posthumous Charles II, choice Mint State, from the 1715 Fleet.
Broad planchet with full shield, nearly full cross, high grade (and lustrous) with very sharp edges. |
a080909941002 |
$2,650
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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 |
$1,975
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Spanish Mints
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Seville, Spain, cob 2
escudos, Philip II, S-Gothic P to left, II to right, encapsulated NGC AU-50.
Nice full shield and cross,
bold mintmark and assayer (the latter with open right side, possibly rare),
nearly round except for crescent-shaped void at edge (probably as made, but
can't tell for sure because of the slab). |
a08090992001 |
$1,595 |
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Seville, Spain, cob 1
escudo, Philip II, S to left, Gothic P to right.
Typically thin and round,
with full cross and shield, full assayer and clear mintmark, VF with flat
areas. |
a050910231002 |
$895 |
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Seville, Spain, cob 2
escudos, (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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