COLOMBIA, Colonial. Felipe V. King of Spain, first reign, 1700-1724. AV 2 Escudos (20mm, 6.71 g, 3h). Cob issue. Nuevo Reino (Santa Fé de Bogotá) mint; Buenaventura de Arce, assayer. Struck 1700-1715. Crowned coat-of-arms / Cross potent within ornate double linear quadrilobe. Restrepo M80.4; cf. Calicó y Trigo 375; KM 17.1; Friedberg 8. Usual areas of flat strike. AU. Though the date and assayer name are off-flan, the king’s ordinal is evident on the obverse.
From the Georges Albert Haikel Collection. Ex 1715 ‘Plate Fleet’ (with Cobb Coin Company ticket no. NCB3475MO and plastic I.D. tag no. 3475).
The 1715 Treasure Fleet was a Spanish fleet returning with some of the wealth from its colonies in the Americas to Spain. A hurricane sank most of the ships in the fleet (eleven of the twelve ships) in the early morning of 31 July 1715 near present-day Vero Beach, Florida.
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