Lot of two crown-size coins: Mexico City, Mexico, pillar 8 reales, Philip V, 1735MF; and Brabant, Spanish Netherlands (Antwerp mint), portrait ducatoon, Philip IV, 1639; both ex-Sotheby, Parke-Bernet (1972).55.28 grams total.XF/AU details with mostly nice toning (patchy on the ducatoon, but that coin also lustrous), small marks and light corrosion from salvage but all elements of design visible, traces of encrustation, desirable original auction provenance.Pedigreed to the Sotheby, Parke-Bernet auction of June 1972, with original lot-tags.Recovered from: Hollandia, sunk in 1743 off the Isles of Scilly, southwest of England
Estimate: 200-300 USD