Gold Coins of the 1715 Fleet
Description: We specialize in Peruvian, Mexican, and Colombian gold coins from the Florida shipwrecks of the 1715 Fleet. We offer Spanish Colonial gold & silver coins from Mexico City, Lima, Cuzco, Potosi, Bogotá, Cartagena & Santiago de Chile.
A directory of our current inventory is below. This new WordPress website is meant for people coming to Gold Cobs on mobile devices and reproduces much of the content on our older (but still current) html website www.goldcobs.com . New this fall, several mint state Lima, Cuzco, & Mexico escudos with 1715 Fleet provenance. From Mexico, a selection of Fleet 1711-15 escudos displaying the novel Altamira reverse designs. From Lima in the post-Fleet era, the finest known example of the ephemeral “Tearful Cross”
Many thanks to those who attended our first conference on the 1715 Fleet. Our second conference on the Fleet occurred at St. Augustine on March 16-18, 2017. Last fall we spoke on the 1711-12 Mexican gold coinage at the annual US Mexican American Numismatic Conference in Scottsdale. Video should soon be available. We will regularly be attending the October USMEX conference in Scottsdale. Please join us if you can. Now available on our sister site, www.1715fleetsociety.com , 1500 high-quality images of the ma
Those of you interested in gold and silver cobs recovered from the 1715 Fleet might enjoy the cover article we did for the January 2015 issue of the Numismatist. Our study of the varieties of the 1714 Mexican onza is recently published in the Journal of US Mexican Numismatic Association, where our study of the Mexican gold coinage of the 1700-1713 Mexican gold coinage is forthcoming.
Gold Coins of the 1715 Fleet