Description: 

MEXICO, Mexico City, cob 8 reales, ex-Concepcion (1641).

Concepción, sunk in 1641 off the northeast coast of Hispaniola

The Concepción was one of the most significant Spanish wrecks of all time, serving the Spanish with a loss of over 100 tons of silver and gold treasure. The almiranta of a 21-ship fleet, the Concepción was already in poor repair when the Europe-bound fleet encountered a storm in September of 1641, leaving her disabled and navigating under makeshift sails amid disagreement among its pilots about their location. Weeks later, she grounded on a reef in an area now named the Silver Shoals, just east of another shoal known as the Abrojos, which the pilots were trying to avoid. After another storm hit the wrecked ship and the admiral and officers left in the ship’s only longboat, the remaining crew resorted to building rafts from the ship’s timbers. Survivors’ accounts pointed to drowning, starvation and even sharks for the approximately 300 casualties. In the fallout that ensued, none of the survivors could report the wreck’s location with accuracy, so it sat undisturbed until New England’s William Phipps found it in 1687 and brought home tons of silver and some gold, to the delight of his English backers. The Concepción was found again in 1978 by Burt Webber, Jr., whose divers recovered some 60,000 silver cobs, mostly Mexican 8 and 4 reales, and also some Potosí and rare Colombian cobs, including more from the Cartagena mint than had been found on any other shipwreck. Unlike the Maravillas 15 years later, the Concepción did not yield any gold cobs in our time, and any significant artifacts found were retained by the government of the Dominican Republic who oversaw the salvage. The bulk of the silver cobs found on the

Concepción were heavily promoted, even in department stores. The site is still worked from time to time with limited success.

Recovered from: Concepcion, sunk in 1641 off Hispaniola.

Code: 102502031035

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Sedwick & Associates, LLC is the world's premier specialist in the colonial coinage of Spanish America, shipwreck coins and artifacts of all nations. In addition to our Online Store, we sell coins and artifacts at various numismatic shows around the nation. Sedwick & Associates, LLC also has the honor of being the only auction company in the world specializing in authentic treasure. Our auction catalogs are accessible on the web and printed in a high-quality format with full-color illustrations for all lots. In the interest of continually updating our venues, we have decided to put a fraction of our inventory and consignments on eBay.

Note: The items we are offering on eBay are only a small fraction of our inventory and consignments, which we generally bring to coin shows around the country (Long Beach,  Baltimore, New York, Chicago, etc.). Therefore any and all inventory listed on  eBay is subject to prior sale, in the rare case that we cannot remove an eBay listing right after an item is sold at a show. 

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