Bolivia: "Atocha" Cob 4 Reales Shipwreck Effect,...
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"Atocha" Cob 4 Reales Shipwreck Effect, 5.1gm. Grade 5. Salvaged from the "Nuestra Señora de Atocha" (sunk in 1622 off Key West, Florida). Sold with Treasure Salvors photo-certificate 88A-11062. This piece is accompanied by a photo-copied letter from consignors where they explain their adventures with Mel Fisher himself. The letter reads: "We stumbled across Mel Fisher by accident when we went to Key West. We took a tour and at the end of that we learned we could be investors. We became investors, and with that you are able to obtain treasure two ways: you can go out and hunt for emeralds, and the other way, you receive your percentage of what they find that year. We were able to find three emeralds with the time being with Mel Fisher; as well as received coins, pearls and other artifacts. A few years after we went back to Key West and went into Emeralds International and had Manuel Marcial de Gomar, who is a worldwide known expert in emeralds, design these two beautiful pieces of jewelry from our division through Mel Fisher's. The Nuestra Señora de Atocha was the Admiral Galleon of the Tierra Firme Fleet, a twenty-eight-ship fleet carrying an unprecedented amount of treasure from the Americas. Sailing from Havana bound to Spain on the 4th of September 1622, the armada was hit by a massive hurricane in the Florida Keys, most of the fleet being decimated and the treasure sinking to the Atlantic seabed. The Spanish efforts to retrieve the precious cargo weren't fruitful, which led to the scattering of the vast amount of treasure across the Florida coast with subsequent hurricanes. The original manifesto of the Atocha was impressive: 24 tons of silver in 1038 ingots, 180,000 Pesos in silver coins, 582 copper ingots, 125 gold bars and discs, 1,200 pounds of worked silverware and other goods; and that's only what was officially transported, since smuggling treasure to avoid taxes was very common in the period, with some estimating that a large percentage of the ...
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