Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC > Treasure Auction 32Auction date: 3 November 2022
Lot number: 44

Price realized: 28,000 USD   (Approx. 28,697 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Lima, Peru, gold cob 8 escudos, 1708 H, NGC MS 63 (1715 Fleet Label), ex-Pullin. S-L25a; KM-38.1; Cal-2114. 26.95 grams. Broad flan with full crown and nearly full legends around choice full pillars-and-waves and cross-lions-castles (both well centered and devoid of doubling), nice rich color with muted luster, variety with legend ending in HISPAN per Tauler 232a. From the 1715 Fleet, pedigreed to the John Pullin Collection (stated on label), with original Cobb Coin Co. (Mel Fisher) tag and photo-certificate NCB 3761 MO.

Estimate: $15000 - $22500

Match 1:
Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC > Treasure Auction 32Auction date: 3 November 2022
Lot number: 29

Price realized: 16,000 USD   (Approx. 16,398 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Mexico City, Mexico, gold cob 8 escudos, 1714 J, NGC MS 62 (1715 Fleet Label), ex-Anderson. S-M30; KM-57.2; Cal-2213; Tauler-393. 26.92 grams. Choice full shield with much legend including most of date and full king's ordinal V, also denomination VIII, the very bold cross and tressure also full with some legend on that side too, light luster, the obverse periphery partially beveled and flat (as made). From the 1715 Fleet, with original Cobb Coin Co. (Mel Fisher) photo-certificate 4298, pedigreed to the collection of Don Anderson (the investor originally responsible for computerization of the Treasure Salvors division records, mentioned several times in The Search for the Atocha [1979], by Eugene Lyon).

Estimate: $10000 - $15000

Match 2:
Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC > Treasure Auction 32Auction date: 3 November 2022
Lot number: 46

Price realized: 22,000 USD   (Approx. 22,548 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Lima, Peru, gold cob 8 escudos, 1712 M, NGC MS 63 (1715 Fleet Label). S-L28; KM-38.2; Cal-2120. 26.84 grams. Choice color with luster on pillars side, great full cross-lions-castles and pillars-and-waves, well centered and not doubled, enough legend to identify as Tauler 240 with HISPANIAR and trace of second date 712. From the 1715 Fleet, pedigreed to the R. Herbruger Collection, with original collector's paper flip.

Estimate: $10000 - $15000

Match 3:
Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC > Treasure Auction 32Auction date: 3 November 2022
Lot number: 50

Price realized: 24,000 USD   (Approx. 24,598 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Lima, Peru, gold cob 8 escudos, 1748 R, NGC MS 63. S-L31; KM-47; Cal-758. 26.89 grams. Choice full cross-lions-castles and (off-center) pillars-and-waves, with clear bottom half of second date 48 in legend (Tauler 560a), lustrous and very boldly struck, tied with one other for second finest in NGC census behind a single MS 65.

Estimate: $12500 - $20000

Match 4:
Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC > Treasure Auction 32Auction date: 3 November 2022
Lot number: 26

Price realized: 17,000 USD   (Approx. 17,423 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Mexico City, Mexico, gold cob 8 escudos, 1713 J, NGC MS 64 (1715 Fleet Label). S-M30; KM-57.1; Cal-2211; Tauler-390. 27.06 grams. Bold date and oXMJ and denomination VIII, most of shield and crown, good full cross (slightly doubled), typically beveled edge (as made), nice luster per the choice grade. From the 1715 Fleet.

Estimate: $15000 - $22500

Match 5:
Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC > Treasure Auction 32Auction date: 3 November 2022
Lot number: 38

Price realized: 7,000 USD   (Approx. 7,174 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


Mexico City, Mexico, gold cob 2 escudos, (1714) J, NGC MS 65 (1715 Fleet Label). S-M30; KM-53.2; Cal-1887; Tauler-275. 6.69 grams. Sharply detailed full shield with full oMJ, clear denomination II and 171 of date (last digit not visible but attributed by NGC as being dated 1714, hence not a tie with prior lot in the census), nearly full cross-and-tressure, lustrous and lightly toned but with some peripheral flatness as usual. From the 1715 Fleet, pedigreed to the R. Herbruger Collection, with original 1970s cardboard tag.

Estimate: $4000 - $6000