AtochaCoins.com
Title
Mel Fisher Found The Atocha Shipwreck In 1985 Pirtae Coins Treasure Reales Key West Florida
Description
Excerpted from the website description:
- Coins of the Atocha and Margarita by Sandy McKinney More than 180,000 coins have been recovered from the wrecks of Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita. This collection has given us an opportunity to see at first hand a selection of representative strikes from all the known New World mints operating from the time the Mexico mint was opened in 1535 to the time of the 1622 shipwrecks. Four reigns are covered: Charles and Juana, Philip II, Philip III, and Philip IV. In order to understand the larger significance of this unique group, it is necessary to regard it as a gestalt—a microcosm in which is reflected all the essential elements of Spain’s conquest and early exploitation of the New World. The enormous range of different strikes horn different assayers from different periods in five separate New World mints gives us an opportunity to view, through the early exuberant development and comparatively rapid decline and degradation of die designs, the essential attitude of the seventeenth century Spaniard towards the wealth of silver available from the mines of Potosi.
Languages
English
Address
- 20710 Persimmon Pl PO Box 1134
- Estero FL 33928 US
