This Spanish Shipwreck gold Escudo, or Doubloon, was recovered from the shores of Cadiz Bay...
Please Note: This is an authentic Cadiz Bay Shipwreck Treasure Coin, and you will receive the exact pendant in the photographs and description.
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No other coin is quite so legendary - or quite so regal - as the glittering 22K gold doubloon. Desired above all other currency by kings, princesses, pirates, privateers and adventurers for centuries, this stunning example of the coin-minters art is the unquestioned treasure coin to end all treasure coins!
Gold “doubloons” and silver “Pieces of 8” have been washing up on the shores of the Bay of Cadiz for hundreds of years! This precious treasure coin was among them!
Your Cadiz Bay Gold Doubloon Pendant
- Date minted: Circa 1610
- Denomination: 2 Escudo "Doubloon"
- Coin weight: 6.58 grams
- Mint: "S" Seville, Spain
- Rulers: Philip III (1598-1621)
- Assayer: Not visible
- Reverse (Back): The Jerusalem Cross
- Obverse: (Front): The Royal Shield PHILPVS III
- Coin Metal: 22K Gold
- Bezel Metal: 18K Gold - Luxury-width bezel
- Articulating Nautical Shackle Bail with a 6.2mm inside diameter large enough to fit a high quality gold chain
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Pendant Size including bezel (frame): 7/8" Across, 1 3/8" Tall (Pendant width diameter of a US Quarter)
Note from Robert: Beautiful, one-of-a-kind specimen, with a strong fully visible cross and shield. The shield has an interesting rustic look to it which is usually indicative of being struck with a rusty die. It is a nice, chunky piece.
I left a little verdigris on the shield side in the spaces between the devices. This is a little bit of encrustation that built up on the coin from being underwater for almost 400 years, a cool part of its shipwreck provenance.
We set in a luxury weight 18K gold bezel, that gives it a regal look and feel. I like to use 18K as most of the coins and jewelry from this time period were 22K to 24K (pure) gold.
The gold used for this coin was mined in New World mines and transported across the Atlantic in a Spanish galleon. Fortunately the Spanish fleet wasn't lost in a storm or caught by pirates or an enimy.
Shield design elements indicates the King’s realm: Castile and Leon; Jerusalem and Navarre; Aragon and Sicily, Granada.
We can never know the individual stories of the gold escudos discovered on the shores of Cadiz Bay, but when we consider the dates the coins were minted, we certainly can extrapolate a few things. The gold from which the escudos are minted is more than likely from New World mines, and was transported as bullion bars, since the first gold coins were not minted in Mexico City until 1622, when Atocha made her fateful journey.
For nearly 300 years Cadiz Bay was a major port for Spanish treasure galleons departing and returning from the New World - hundreds sank in the bay over these centuries. In 1587 the British privateer Sir Frances Drake sailed into the Bay of Cadiz and attacked the Spanish Armada that was preparing to attack England. The coins in our Cadiz Bay collection that date prior to Drake's attack may be from some of those galleons! Storms and other battles sank later galleons.
Your Gold Doubloon Pendant Comes Complete with:
- Our 100% Authentic Lifetime Guarantee
- A Detailed, Full Color, 3-Page Photo Certificate of Authenticity (with your exact coin) Researched and Written by Robert Lewis Knecht
- 8 page Spanish Gold Historic Brief researched and written by Robert
- "Pieces of Eight" Historic Brief
- The Coins of the Lost Galleons Book
- Treasure Hunters Gazette Booklet
- Miny Museum Display for when you are not wearing your treasure
- A Treasure Jewelry Care Card
