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 The winning bidder of this coin will receive a letter of appraisal from Mel Fisher's Museum Curator with a raised seal to prove its authenticity & appraisal value of $7,900! The Mel Fisher museum currently sells similar coins for this amount! This coin has a much higher value because it is a rare 'B'- Juan de Ballesteros Narvaez Assayer cob and only a very small portion of the coins recovered from the Atocha were minted by Ballesteros. He served from 1576 to 1586 under both King Phillip the Second.  He minted some of the earliest coins that were found aboard the Atocha.  He was renowned for insisting on only the highest quality markings on all his coins.  Did you know that the 2 and 4 Reale coins have a higher value than the 8 Reale?  This is because a fewer number of these coins were made of these denominations. 

This coin was recently recertified and appraised at a cost of $320.00!  The new certificate includes modern counterfeitting prevention methods that include a silver Mel Fisher barcode stamp in the top right hand corner and a hologram of Mel Fisher's face on the paper. You will also receive a leather Mel Fisher branded coin holder with an information tab about the coin. As an added bonus, this complete collection of items also comes mounted in a hard backed certificate holder to keep your paperwork and treasure in mint condition. With silver rising to historic levels, this coin is an excellent investment opportunity as well as a unique addition to your collection! Please hurry because it is priced to sell quickly!

Please be careful of Atocha coins being sold on Ebay!!! I encourage you to look up any coin you are interested in buying on www.historicshipwrecks.com ! Mel Fisher has all his coins registered there. Then click on "Search for Artifacts". You can find the coins by omitting the year, so if a coin is numbered 85A-####### you can enter the numbers after the dash in the "Tag#" field and click on "Search" and the coin should appear. Also, If someone wants to sell you a coin without a certificate it's a big deal because it costs $200 plus shipping to get one. You will see that my coins come with a certificate and are all registered & photographed.

 

History of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha

In 1622 a fleet of Spanish galleons sailed from Cuba bound for Spain. They were full of copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, jewels, jewelry and indigo. The Spanish government was having financial problems and they were in desperate need of a cash infusion from treasures obtained from the New World. A series of delays caused the group of ships to depart in the heart of hurricane season. Shortly after their departure from Cuba a fierce hurricane struck and the two ships that were the most laden with treasure were sunk. Their names were the Santa Margarita and the Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The Spanish tried to recover the lost treasures, and were partly successful in recovering the Santa Margarita. However, they were not successful at salvaging the treasures of the Atocha because there were hurricanes that damaged & scattered the remains after it went down, and it sank in water too deep for diving. The treasures of the Atocha lay buried on the ocean floor for almost 400 years until the salvage group led by Mel Fisher discovered the wreckage in 1985. This coin is one of the treasures that Mel Fisher’s group discovered.

This treasure is more than a piece of silver, it’s a historical artifact dating back to the days when our country was just beginning to be populated and the pirate era of the Caribbean was in its infancy. This coin really belongs in a museum, but now is your chance to own a piece of history.