1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet – 50 cents
1715-2025: Celebrate the 310 Year 1715 Fleet Anniversary with Our Special Release... the World's Largest Collection of Rare, Curated Shipwreck Treasure Coin Pendants
The motion pictures The Deep and Fool’s Gold portray “Hollywood-style” versions of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet, but these legendary coins are the real thing - and their story is complete with a pirate (or two)
As seen on the series BLACK SAILS, History Channel's Beyond Oak Island, Netflix's The Lost Pirate Kingdom, Discovery Channel's Cooper's Treasure and Travel Channel's Expedition Unknown with Josh Gates.
The shining silver “Pieces of Eight” you see here...
were recovered from Spain's famed 1715 Treasure Fleet, the victim of a hurricane that struck the fleet just a few days out of the port of Havana, Cuba, driving the ships onto the reefs off of Vero Beach, just south of present Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The Golden Age of Piracy 1650-1730 - What connection does the 1715 Fleet have to Pirates?
These "pieces of 8" are also the famous coins of pirate legend and lore. The Spanish quickly began salvaging their fleet. But pirates Henry Jennings, and Charles Vane, amassed a crew and attacked the Spanish salvage camp on December 28, 1715. They made off with upwards of 350,000 pieces of 8. Obviously, this coin survived that raid, and lay hidden for hundreds of years on the ocean bottom, to be salvaged only a few years ago.
The pirate Blackbeard was also prowling the Florida coast and Caribbean at this time and drinking rum with Jennings and Vane! It's fascinating to consider that Blackbeard was sailing by, and attacking ships, just a few miles from the wreckage of "The Fleet," which stretched for over 30 miles along the Florida coast.
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