Watch List notes:

Mexico City, Mexico, klippe 8 reales, (1)733MF, very rare provenance. 15.18 grams. Well struck as usual, with bold date, full crown and shield and cross, oM and 8 and king's name, but with light surface corrosion all over, but most valuable for its provenance, a very rare wreck that yielded a variety (but not a quantity) of world coins. Pedigreed to the original Sotheby's auction of November 8, 1973, lot #99, with photocopy of related pages from catalog, and to our Auction #8, with original lot-tag #958, and to the Thomas Gray collection and our Auction #11, with original lot-tag #515. Recovered from: Wendela, sunk in 1737 off the Shetland Islands, north of Scotland

Estimate: $700 - 1000