Description: EL CAZADOR SHIPWRECK - 1783 MO FF 2R - Mexico 2 Reales Silver Coin NGC Certified The coin in this listing is the one you will receive as the winner! from Wikipedia: The El Cazador (meaning The Hunter in English) was a Spanish brig that sank in the Gulf of Mexico in 1784. On 20 October 1783 Charles III of Spain sent her on a mission to bring much-needed hard currency to the Spanish colony of Louisiana. The ship sailed to Veracruz, Mexico, where she was loaded with approximately 450,000 Spanish reales. King Carlos III enlisted his most trusted captain, Gabriel de Campos y Pineda, to command the ship. On 11 January 1784, she sailed for New Orleans, and was never heard from again. Spain’s attempts to locate the ship were unsuccessful and in June 1784, El Cazador was officially listed as missing at sea. Then on 2 August 1993, the trawler Mistake, Captain Jerry Murphy and home port Pascagoula, Mississippi, was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico fifty miles south of New Orleans. As it fished, Mistake's net hung on a snag. When the crew hoisted the net and dumped the contents on the deck, they found the net was filled with silver coins. The coins bore markings from the Spanish mint in Mexico, along with the date 1783. Treasure from the ship was originally housed in a safe at the old Grand Bay State Bank building in Grand Bay, Alabama. In December 2004 the Executors of the Reahard estate hired Jonathan Lerner of Scarsdale Coin to appraise the coins. This appraisal was completed in February 2005.
Price: 175 USD
Location: Overland Park, Kansas
End Time: 2024-12-27T20:14:47.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Denomination: 2 Reales
Circulated/Uncirculated: Circulated
Historical Period: Colonial (up to 1821)
Composition: Silver
Year: 1783
Grade: Ungraded
Country/Region of Manufacture: Mexico
Certification: NGC
