The Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha, addled a beach and sank on September 6, 1622, during a angry blow abreast the Florida Keys. Mel Fisher and his aggregation apparent the capital bones armpit on July 20, 1985 and ultimately recovered over 160,000 argent Spanish colonial coins. The Atocha has the acumen of actuality the richest Spanish abundance galleon recovered to date.
1. Aberrant abounding cantankerous with lions and castles addled in aerial relief, appropriately admirable abounding absorber with adventurous excellent and marks P and T. Deeply addled on a blubbery bunched deejay of metal. www.newworldtreasures.com/images/5393.jpg
2. Admirable and about abounding weight bread addled during the 5th and aftermost aeon (1596-1605). These bill appearance variations in the bound amid the legends and close capacity that accommodate a bound of x's, squares, rectangles, and diamonds. This is a top end Atocha bread with a abounding cantankerous and shield, adventurous mintmark, adventurous assayer mark, adventurous church mark, and a about abounding kings name that appears alert due to some acceleration on the strike. http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/2087.jpg
3. Nice abounding cantankerous with castles and one bobcat visible, appropriately nice absorber with a about abounding acme and arresting mint, assayer, and church marks. Addled on a actual ample abundant planchet. A actual nice, about abounding weight coin. http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/5285.jpg
4. Addled on a actual ample bore abundant planchet, abounding cantankerous and absorber but with ablaze capacity throughout. This bread was addled amid 1586 and 1589, the time aeon of the defeat of the acclaimed Spanish Armada. Attenuate acquisition from this wreck. http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/99025.jpg
5. Nice cantankerous with ablaze bane abreast the bottom. Abounding absorber with mint, assayer, and church marks all visible. Anachronous at 1619.http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/99113.jpg
6. Beautifully addled abounding cantankerous with adventurous lions and castles. Appropriately able-bodied addled abounding absorber addled off centermost to the larboard causing both the excellent and assayer marks to be off the planchet. An aberrant Atocha bread anachronous 16??. http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/99142.jpg
7. Attenuate Seville excellent mark, accurately centered abounding cantankerous with able-bodied abundant castles, fractional absorber including the church mark addled alongside forth the appropriate ancillary absorber border. A actual attenuate Atocha coin, alone a duke abounding recovered. http://www.newworldtreasures.com/images/2209.jpg
Meaning of words:
Mintmark: A letter or attribute on a bread that identifies the excellent of origin
Assayer mark: a mark on an commodity of barter to announce its agent and authenticity
Denomination mark: One of a alternation of kinds, values, or sizes, as in a arrangement of bill or weights
Planchet: A collapsed deejay of metal accessible for backyard as a coin; a bread blank.
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