Spanish Silver Cob (8-Reales) from the Hollandia-shipwreck, sunk 1743

Spanish Silver Cob (8-Reales) from the Hollandia-shipwreck, sunk 1743

The coin comes in an old coin holder with a typed note as per the picture below.

According to an internet source:

"Blown off course on her way to the East Indies, the Hollandia struck Gunner Rock and sank in about 110 feet of water about 1½ miles east of it on July 13, 1743. There were no survivors. The first sign of the wreck came in 1971, when divers under Rex Cowan located the wreck-site and within a couple years salvaged over 35,000 silver coins among the nearly 130,000 guilders (dollar-sized units) recorded to be on board the Hollandia. A great majority of the coins were Mexican pillar dollars, but there were also some silver cobs, including the scarce Mexican transitional klippes of 1733-1734 and a few Guatemala cobs, in mixed condition".

36 x 33 mm, 26.4g.

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