Sacramento, sunk in 1668 off Brazil. Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC

Sacramento, sunk in 1668 off Brazil

The lead vessel of a 50-ship annual convoy between Lisbon, Portugal, and Bahia, Brazil, the Sacramento hit a sandbar at night and sank in a squall on May 5, 1668, sending some 400 people to their grave. Official Brazilian government salvage on the wreck took place beginning in 1976, at some point involving the famed salvager Robert Marx. Very little information can be found about the wreck and its salvage, and similarly sparse material from it has come to market. What little has reached collectors (all silver coins) has been almost exclusively Portuguese coins with Brazilian countermarks from 1663, but a few Spanish colonial cobs (also countermarked) have surfaced as well.

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