Mexico City, Mexico, cob 4 reales, Philip IV, assayer not visible. 12.83 grams. Bold full shield and cross but no peripheral details, corrosion-free and nicely brown-toned in crevices, as is typical for this wreck, accompanied by all the official paperwork that is required to resell coins from this wreck. With original Western Australian Museum certificate #3783 and Status International auction lot-card #5515 from 2005, and pedigreed to the Thomas Gray collection and formerly displayed at the ANA Money Museum's "Treasures of the Deep" exhibit (2014-15), also pedigreed to our Auction #11, with original lot-tag #374. Recovered from: Vergulde Draeck ("Gilt Dragon"), sunk in 1656 off Western Australia
Estimate: $350 - 500