| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61563 | Auction date: 11 November 2025 |
| Lot number: 24196 Price realized: 240 USD (Approx. 208 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Mexico Ferdinand VI "Doddington" 8 Reales 1750 Mo-MF XF (Shipwreck Effect), Mexico City mint, KM104.1, Cal-474. 17.50gm. Accompanied by COA. Salvaged from the Doddington (sunk in 1755 in Algoa Bay, South Africa). The Doddington shipwreck, also known as the Clive of India wreck, carried a large amount of gold and silver belonging to Robert Clive, British Governor of the Bengal Presidency. Upon striking a rock in Algoa Bay, Eastern Cape, the fateful instance claimed most of its crew and passengers. Treasure hunters discovered the wreck and looted it in the past few decades, with some 1,200 gold coins eventually returned to the South African government after legal battles. The Clive of India gold coins are known to have matte-like surfaces, with many consisting of high-grade Brazilian 6400 Réis. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/mexico/ferdinand-vi-doddington-8-reales-1750-mo-mf-xf-shipwreck-effect-/p/61563-17032.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61563-11112025 HID02906262019 © 2025 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61563 | Auction date: 11 November 2025 |
| Lot number: 24197 Price realized: 110 USD (Approx. 95 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Mexico Charles III "El Cazador" Cob 1/2 Real 1776 Mo-FM XF (Shipwreck Effect), Mexico City mint, KM69.2, Cal-200. 1.10gm. Accompanied by COA. Salvaged from the "El Cazador" Shipwreck (sunk in 1784 off Louisiana). A pair of sharp 1/2 Reales put away by the salvager of the wreck. Considered by many as the ship that changed US History, the El Cazador was one of Charles III's last efforts to restore the economy of his North American colony: Louisiana. The ship was loaded in Veracruz with approximately 450,000 Pesos in value, broken in 8 Reales and its fractions--most coins struck in 1783 at the Mexico City mint--though older dates were also recovered from the wreck. The ship sailed to New Orleans on January 11th, 1784, never to be heard from again. Frustrated with the great loss, Charles III abandoned efforts to invest in the colony, one of which during the Napoleonic Era in Spain would be sold off by Napoleon himself to fund his efforts against Great Britain. The territory was acquired in 1803 by James Monroe, tasked by Thomas Jefferson, for the amount of $15 million (equivalent to about $337 million in 21st century currency), almost doubling in size and changing the United States territory forever. www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/mexico/charles-iii-el-cazador-cob-1-2-real-1776-mo-fm-xf-shipwreck-effect-/p/61563-17001.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61563-11112025 HID02906262019 © 2025 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61563 | Auction date: 11 November 2025 |
| Lot number: 24106 Price realized: 370 USD (Approx. 320 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Guatemala Philip V "Reijgersdaal" Cob 4 Reales 173X-J XF (Shipwreck Effect), Guatemala City mint, KM5, Cal-Type 131. 12.80gm. Accompanied by COA. Salvaged from the "Reijgersdaal" (sunk in 1747 off Cape Town, South Africa). The VOC ship Reijgersdaal was lost on October 26th, 1747, after striking reefs off the West Coast of South Africa. It carried some 8 treasure chests containing about 30,000 coins. Though the few survivors retrieved a partial chest of coins, contemporary salvaging was deemed too dangerous. Modern salvaging started in the late 1970's with thousands of near-pristine Mexican Pillar 8 Reales being recovered. From the Salvager Collection www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/guatemala/philip-v-reijgersdaal-cob-4-reales-173x-j-xf-shipwreck-effect-/p/61563-29050.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61563-11112025 HID02906262019 © 2025 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61563 | Auction date: 11 November 2025 |
| Lot number: 24051 Price realized: 300 USD (Approx. 260 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Bolivia Philip IV "Capitana" Cob 8 Reales 1653 P-E Fine Details (Saltwater Damage) PCGS, Potosi mint, KM21, Cal-1503. 15.21gm. Accompanied by COA. Salvaged from the "Capitana" (sunk in 1654 off Chanduy, Ecuador). Organized by the assayers and other mint workers, the plan behind the "Potosi Scandal" was to reduce the purity of their coins while the thieves kept the remaining silver for themselves. The impacts were immense, even shaking Spain's reputation with the Asian trade, where merchants had the upmost trust for the Spanish Cob's silver quality. A transition of coinages occurred, full of unsuccessful attempts to uniformize the currency, one of them being the countermarking of the scandal coins with Crowned letters (or crowns alone), reducing the 8 Reales to 7 1/2 Reales. To set in stone the "New Potosi mint", a new style of Cobs was created (Pillars and Waves) and the scandal coins, countermarked or not, were to be re-melted/destroyed. The wreck of the Capitana, or the lead ship of the Spanish South Seas (Pacific) Fleet, would become the largest loss ever experienced by the Spanish armada. After striking the Punta Santa Elena reefs, The Jesus María de la Limpia Concepción lost a reported 3,000,000 pesos of silver, extended to a total of approximately 10 million pesos when considering the un-recorded contraband and treasure aboard. Sadly, due to the unregistered cargo that was stored atop the anchor cables and foredeck, the crew was unable to use the anchors for safe stoppage. For context, the entire annual silver production in Peru was around 6-7 million pesos, suggesting that the Concepción was carrying almost one and a half years of peso production. For eight years after the wreck, the Spanish managed to salvage a vast majority of the lost 'official' 3 million pesos and would later recover even more coins, causing a scandal due to the mismatch of monetary records. Ironically, and sadly, the main salvager of the wreck was the Concepción's silver master, Bernardo de Campos, who is blamed for the overload of unregistered contraband that contributed to the ship's tragedy. The lowest deck would be unreachable until modern divers and salvaging equipment were used during the mid-1990s. After equally splitting the recovered coins with the Ecuadorian government in 1998, officially around 2,500 coins would appear at auction in 1999. These were almost exclusively Potosí 8 and 4 Reales that were in excellent condition, including countermarked issues (1649-1652), transitional issues of 1652, and post-transitional pillars-and-waves cobs (1653-1654). www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/bolivia/philip-iv-capitana-cob-8-reales-1653-p-e-fine-details-saltwater-damage-pcgs-/p/61563-17004.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61563-11112025 HID02906262019 © 2025 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Certification number: Genuine PCGS 59080555 |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61546 | Auction date: 2 September 2025 |
| Lot number: 23241 Price realized: 150 USD (Approx. 128 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Mexico Ferdinand VII "Cabalva" 8 Reales 1816 Mo-JJ XF (Shipwreck Effect), Mexico City mint, KM111, Cal-1093. 26.00gm. Salvaged from the "Cabalva" (sunk in 1818 off Mauritius, Indian Ocean). www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/mexico/mexico-ferdinand-vii-cabalva-8-reales-1816-mo-jj-xf-shipwreck-effect-/a/61546-23241.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61546-09022025 HID02906262019 © 2025 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61563 | Auction date: 11 November 2025 |
| Lot number: 24182 Price realized: 380 USD (Approx. 329 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Mexico Philip V "Hollandia" 4 Reales 1737 Mo-MF XF (Shipwreck Effect), Mexico City mint, KM94, Cal-1118. 13.20gm. Accompanied by COA. Salvaged from the "Hollandia" (sunk in 1743 off the isles of Scilly, England). Minimally affected by saltwater. Belonging to the Dutch East India Company, the Hollandia met her demise during its inaugural voyage in July of 1743. Leaving the port of Texel with a convoy bound for Batavia in the Dutch East Indies, the Hollandia became lost in dense fog around the Scilly Islands. It struck rocks a few kilometers outside the island of Annet, but after firing cannons and unsuccessfully alerting locals, the entirety of the 276-member crew and its treasure perished. The cargo it carried contained several barrels filled with silver coins worth approximately 129,000 florins. Many were Spanish issues of four and eight Reales that were minted in Mexico and Bolivia, hardly having time to circulate before the tragedy. Some of the rarer issues included Mexican "Klippes" (1733-1734), Cobs from Guatemala, and Ducatons from the Netherlands. These coins, and many more artifacts, were found and recovered over 200 years later in 1971 by London explorer Rex Cowan. Cowan, and a team of divers, archeologists, and specialists, began an archeological excavation that covered 180 meters by 100 meters. In two years, over 35,000 silver coins and bronze artifacts were recovered, with most coins being Mexican eight Reales "columnarios" (silver coins that feature the column motif, minted in Spain from 1732-1773). From the Salvager Collection www.HA.com/TexasAuctioneerLicenseNotice https://coins.ha.com/itm/mexico/philip-v-hollandia-4-reales-1737-mo-mf-xf-shipwreck-effect-/p/61563-29032.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61563-11112025 HID02906262019 © 2025 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
