SHIPWRECK PIECE-OF-EIGHT : Reigersdaal VOC East Indiaman sunk 1747

One of South Africa’s most famous treasure shipwrecks was the VOC’s Reigersdaal, built in 1738 in Amsterdam and sunk near Dassen Island, South Africa in 1747.

The Reigersdaal was discovered in 1979 by the salvage team of Brian Clark and Tubby Gericke. They salvaged the cannons and a great deal of lead. However, Jimmy Rawe en Arthur Ridge found later some 6.800 coins. Divers later found the real treasure, the coffins with the big party of silver.

A great majority of the coins from this wreck are Mexican pillar dollars.

The following two picture are from Malcolm Turner’s Shipwrecks and Salvage in South Africa (1988) : 101 and 110

Please see following 2 pictures of the actual coin you are bidding on, being a Spanish Eight Reaal (Silver Piece-of-Eight) minted in Mexico in 1741 under the reign of King Philip V. Salvaged from the wreck of the VOC East Indiaman, the Reigersdaal. 

I sold a similar 8-Reaal from the Reigersdaal dated one year later (1742) on Bid-or-Buy on 28 October 2010 for R2,220.00

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