Atocha Treasure Coins Atocha Treasure Coins specializes in the sales of authentic Atocha coins recovered by Mel Fisher from the Atocha shipwreck, a Spanish galleon lost off the Florida Keys during a hurricane. Atocha Coin Jewelry. Gold Coin Jewelry. Add to Wish List Compare this Product. Atocha Grade Three Eight Reale in a Sterling Silve. Authentic shipwreck coins and coin jewelry offerings include those recovered from the Atocha, Consolacion, 1715 fleet, Vliegenthart, Princess Louisa, Reijgersdaal, El Cazador, Maravillas, and other miscellaneous shipwrecks. All of our coins are guaranteed to be authentic, we do not deal in. Atocha, sunk in 1622 west of Key West, Florida. The cargo of the Atocha did not see light again until 1971 when the first coins were found by the now famous salvager Mel Fisher and his divers, who recovered the bulk of the shipwreck treasure in 1985 and thereby unleashed the largest supply of silver cobs and ingots the market has ever seen. Authentic Atocha Shipwreck Coin in 14K Mounting - 8 Reales - Item #9666. Authentic Santa Margarita Shipwreck Coin in 14K Mounting - 8 Reales - Item #9664.

Atocha Coin Description

The term “Atocha Coins” refers to silver and gold Spanish coins recovered from the shipwreck of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha.
On September 6, 1622, the heavily laden treasure galleon of King Philip IV’s Tierra Firme Fleet struck a reef and sank in a raging storm near the Florida Keys. More than two hundred and sixty persons perished and tons of gold, silver, and other precious cargo were lost to the sea. All attempts to locate the shipwreck failed until the location of the primary cultural deposit was made by Treasure Salvors, Inc., on July 20th 1985.

The Nuestra Senora de Atocha carried over 200,000 hand stamped silver coins from mints in Potosi, Lima and Mexico City. To date, only 128 gold Atocha coins have been recovered! The gold Atocha coins were minted in Spain, as gold coins were not minted in the New World in 1622. The gold Atocha coins would have been in the pockets and possessions of the wealthy passengers.
Silver coins are referred to as “pieces of eight” and were measured in reales. Their denominations are 8 reales, 4 reales, 2 reales, 1 real, ½ real and ¼ real. An 8 reales silver Atocha coin was roughly equivalent to one month’s pay for a sailor in the 1600’s.

Denominations of the Atocha coins were based on the “Onza” or avoirdupois ounce equaling 28 grams. Each denomination was to equal one-half of the next higher denomination. Due to the crude hand-struck minting process, no two coins look alike.
Gold Atocha coins were measured in escudos and were referred to as “doubloons”. The term dubloon originally came from the word “double” for a two escudo coin. Two pieces of eight (silver) equaled a one-escudo coin or a sixteen-to-one ration between gold and silver bullion. Gold coin denominations are 8 escudo, 4 escudo, 2 escudo and 1 escudo.

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You can purchase your own authentic Atocha - Margarita coin or a reproduction made with a portion of from authentic Atocha silver or gold from the only 'official' Mel Fisher Family treasure website on the internet who are the finders of the Atocha & Margarita shipwrecks! Every Atocha and Margarita historic artifact on the Mel Fisher website can be guaranteed to be authentic and comes with a documented Certificate of Authenticity that can trace the item from the seabed - to our conservation lab - to you. NO OTHER 'TREASURE' OR 'ATOCHA COIN' SITE CAN MAKE THAT CLAIM!
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Atocha Coin Pendant

Motivation, Inc. certifies and/or appraises only artifacts recovered by this company:

- Atocha/Margarita shipwreck artifacts
- 1715 Fleet artifacts

Authentic Atocha Coins For Sale

We do not provide these services for 1733 artifacts

(At this time we are only providing authentication for Mel Fisher's Treasures members only.)

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