1702 (1702-10) Mexico Philip V Gold Escudos Cob NGC MS63 1715 Fleet Shipwreck Archive

1702 (1702-10) Mexico Philip V Gold Escudos Cob NGC MS63 1715 Fleet Shipwreck ArchiveSOLD 1702 (1702 1710) NGC MS63 1715 Fleet Shipwreck. Rare first year of issue Finest Known The Sunken Treasure That Funded Blackbeard! 300 years ago, a fleet of 11 ships left the New World loaded with a variety of treasures. Named for the Spanish word for silver, the Plate Fleet was struck by a hurricane off Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 31, 1715. The entire fleet was lost, and 1,000 sailors lost their lives. The survivors did what they could to

the “C” is the standard Roman abbreviation of the praenomen

Type Standard circulation coin

This is an investment grade rarity that will highlight any rare coin portfolio

This Double Eagle looks MS 62 by todays standards in our opinion

A lone MS67 exists in a private collection estimated value of 100k

The fleet consisted of eleven Spanish galleons that were loaded with vast amounts of gold

olive sprig with berry and crescent in upper left field

SSCA #03566580

The 1715 Fleet Shipwreck

* Global collector demand

The obverse exhibits a halo of powder blue peripheral iridescence around a soft silver-olive and pinkish-gray center

representing his authority as emperor