1681 Santa Maria De La Consolación Sea Salvaged Silver 8 Reale Shipwreck Coin Spinning Solid 14k Yellow Gold Pendant

Look hard and all around and I can promise you won’t find any shipwreck coin with this cool of a bezel and most certainly not at a better price. Let’s start with this beautiful high grade example of a sea salvaged 1600’s Spanish colonial silver 8 reale coin. This piece was bought from a well known dealer of mine who I buy some of my best pieces of jewelry from and who is extremely knowledgeable and trustworthy. This was actually his personal pendant that he had worn everyday for the last 20 years and he told me years ago that when he was ready to sell it I would be the first to know and sure enough he kept his word. Now he bought this piece from another well known coin dealer here in Florida who told him that this coin was found among the treasures of the 1681 Consolación shipwreck in 1997. Both dealers are very well known, reputable, and knowledgeable men here in Fl who have no reason to lie about the background of this piece. So even though there is no certificate of authenticity it literally matters none to me I trust the information to the fullest but also because I’m not able to prove it with official paperwork I am selling it at an extremely fair price. The coin alone by itself and specifically the solid 14k yellow gold custom made 360 degree spinning bezel are worth what I’m charging for this entire piece alone each separately. The 1681 Consolación shipwreck itself is actually a very cool story as it’s one of the only few shipwrecks that actually directly ties in with pirates. The story goes that spied by Bartholomew Sharpe, a British pirate sailing the seas off of Ecuador (where Spanish ships would stop to reprovision) in search of a rich prize, the consolación was spotted and soon pursued by the pirate ship. Heavy and treasure-laden (probably trying to make it to safety at the Spanish settlement of Guayaquil, Equador), Consolacion struck a reef off of Santa Clara Island. When the passengers and crewmen abandoned the foundering ship, the crew set fire to her in an attempt to keep the pirates from claiming the treasure. Sharpe and his men tried in vain to recover the treasure, and failed to pocket a single piece of eight. Ironically, later Spanish attempts also failed. And so Consolacion’s treasure lay undisturbed, at the bottom of the sea, until modern day treasure salvors first began bringing “Pieces of Eight” to the surface in 1997. The whole coin and pendant itself weigh approximately 25.2g and measure approximately 2” by 1.5” with a medium to large style bail of approximately 5mm around. The necklace shown in the pictures is a 4mm solid rope chain (NOT INCLUDED IN THE PURCHASE).

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