Watch List notes:

Lima, Peru, gold cob 8 escudos, 1712 M, rotated legend, NGC MS 62 (1715 Fleet Label) / 300th Anniversary Find. S-L28; KM-38.2; Cal-2120. 27.00 grams. Full and lustrous pillars-and-waves, choice full cross-lions-castles (both sides with spots of gray encrustation), lots of legend including full ISPANIAR to right (180-degree legend rotation, per Tauler 242), desirable as from the 2015 recoveries made exactly 300 years after the sinking. From the 1715 Fleet "Tricentennial Treasure" (2015 Douglass Beach find) with original Queens Jewels tag and photo-certificate 78204.


Estimate: 15000 - 22500 USD