Any Info On This?

[diggerdan]

I'm new here and found this in Florida in 1995. I was told by the jeweler that cleaned it up it was minted in Lima in 1710. I made the bezel by using a jewelers saw on a 1 ounce ingot and soldering it together. Crude, and needs cleaning badly, I know.

 

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[Trez]

Digger,

Looks like an 8 reales...Mexico Mint, not LIMA.
The cross is not a bar-end cross or an earlier plain cross no bars...it is a globed end cross telling you Mexico mint.

Trez

 

[BEACH-HUNTER]

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I LIKE IT...WEAR IT WITH PRIDE!!!!!!! GREAT FIND

 

[diggerdan]

Digger,

Looks like an 8 reales...Mexico Mint, not LIMA.
The cross is not a bar-end cross or an earlier plain cross no bars...it is a globed end cross telling you Mexico mint.

Trez

I have [had?] reason to believe it came from the Plate Fleet Wreck of 1715, is that possible w/ Mexico mint? I found it right off a known wreck site. There's a long story here for maybe another time.

 

[wreckdiver1715]

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I have [had?] reason to believe it came from the Plate Fleet Wreck of 1715, is that possible w/ Mexico mint? I found it right off a known wreck site. There's a long story here for maybe another time.
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Yes!

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

nice