Gold Cobs
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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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Spanish Mints

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Seville, Spain, cob 2
escudos, 1699/8 M, very rare (unlisted), NGC AU 58, finest and only example
in NGC census.
Cal-unl (Type 154); KM-unl
(211 for type). 6.76 grams. Clear date with bold overdate (neither listed
for this type in Calico), full shield and nearly full cross (both bold),
white and dark-brown encrustation in crevices. NGC #5965264-001. |
a112104191001 |
SOLD |
Colombia
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Bogota, Colombia, cob 4
escudos, 1751, assayer S above denomination 4 to right, mintmark FS to left,
NGC AU 55, finest known in NGC census.
Restrepo-M96.6; S-B27a;
KM-27; Cal-725. 13.45 grams. Full cross (off-center) with bold 175 and
bottom part of final 1 of date, full shield with F.S to left and
denomination 4 (rotated, possibly punched over an 8) to right, most of
king's name FERDINANDVS in legend, with minor flat spots and encrustation in
crevices, the finer of just two in the NGC census. NGC #5965225-007.
Pedigreed to the Fernandina collection (stated on label). |
a112104191002 |
SOLD |
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Bogota, Colombia, cob 2
escudos, 1735, assayer M to right, NGC MS 63, finest known in NGC census.
Restrepo-M80.12; S-B26;
KM-17.2; Cal-1954. 6.73 grams. Lustrous and sharply detailed, with bold full
date outside a choice full cross-and-tressure, the shield also full and bold
and complete but with trifle doubling at upper right, horizontal assayer M
to right, just inside bold PHIL- of king's name (the ordinal V also visible
further along), also much crown, an exceptional specimen for the period. NGC
#6272341-002. |
a082113041003 |
$5,950 |
Lima
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BLima,
Peru, cob 1 escudo, 1738/7/6 N, rare, NGC XF details / plugged. S-L29;
KM-unl (35 for type); Cal-Type 197. Very broad flan with full 738/7/6 date
below (overdate not noted on label) L-castle-N (traces of black encrustation
in crevices), also full cross-and-tressure, all slightly off-center but
bold. NGC #4222431-010. |
a122104195001e |
SOLD |
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Daniel Frank
Sedwick, LLC - PO BOX 1964 | Winter Park, FL 32790 | Phone 407.975.3325 |
office@sedwickcoins.com |

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