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Pre-conquest (native
American) copper-arsenic tajaderas from southern Mexico (Zapotec, Oaxaca),
1300s-1500s.
These curious items in the
form of a scraper (also called axes or hoes) were a form of money in
pre-conquest Mexico, where they were cast in a certain alloy of copper and
arsenic that allowed them to survive, now patinated and dusty but solid and
not corroded, tan in color, this particular type from Oaxaca with short,
straight handles that have blunted sides,
18 available. |
o030904030002-19 |
$100
each individually, or $90 each for 10, or $80 each for all |
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Pre-conquest (native
American) copper-arsenic tajaderas from northwestern Mexico (Guerrero-Michoacan,
Tarascan), 1300s-1500s.
As above, but a commoner
type made of thinner and more brittle metal with greener surfaces (some
chipped or split), the handles long and wavy,
22 available. |
o030904030023-44 |
$40
each, or 35 each for 10, or 30 each for 20, or 25 each for 25 or more |
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Encrusted small silver cobs from the 1715
Fleet with Cobb Coin Company (Mel Fisher) insert-cards and certificates.
Each coin in this group is a puffy "biscuit" of oxidation and shell bits,
inside which are the remnants of a small silver cob (too fragile to break
out of its biscuit-shell), yet enough of an artifact to merit its own
numbered tag and certificate from Fisher. 9 left! |
o090613131050-58 |
$35 each
individually, or $30 each for 5, or $25 each for for all. |
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Brass buckles from the Rosario, sunk
in 1753 off Montevideo, Uruguay, with certificates. These are intact
buckles (lacking only the iron catch in the center), all more or less
rectangular and about 1¾" x 1¼", various designs, currently uncleaned (with
white and brown oxidation) but we have seen them cleaned and polished to a
beautiful shine, 18 available. |
o060606711200-217 |
$25 each
individually, or $22.50 each for 5, or $20 each for 10, or $17.50 each for all. |
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