Sedwick Shipwreck Treasure and World Coin Auction Commences

By Daniel Frank Sedwick

Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC announces the release of their Treasure and World Coin Auction #8, held from October 21 to October 23, 2010, comprising 2789 lots, by far their largest sale to date.

For the first time Sedwick has incorporated "World Coins" into the title, as the auction features almost 1000 lots of general world coins. Says Sedwick:

"This is not just a treasure auction — it is also a world coin auction, our first big offering of gold and silver coins from countries all over the world. Like never before, there is certainly something for everyone here."

As usual the auction will start with Gold Cobs, more than 50 of them this time (mostly from shipwrecks), including several of the finest known 1715-Fleet specimens: a full-date and exceptionally struck Mexican 8 escudos 1714 and 4 escudos 1715; a near-perfect Lima 2 escudos and probably the finest known Lima cob 1 escudo, both dated 1710 and encapsulated PCGS, the latter MS-64. Also there are no less than nine Fleet "bogeys" (Bogotá 2 escudos) in this sale.

The next section, World Gold Coins, contains over 300 lots, most of them Spanish Colonial "busts," including: the finest known Mexican 1 escudo 1733/2, recovered by Marty Meylach from the 1733 Fleet and the inspiration for his book Diving to a Flash of Gold; a unique Santiago, Chile, 1 escudo, 1755/4, from the famous Eliasberg collection; and well over 100 Spanish colonial bust 8 escudos by date, most of them starting below melt value.

The Ingots section features a collection of large, natural gold nuggets, as well as several important 16th-century ingots (including "tumbaga") and a unique silver "piña" ingot from the Atocha (1622).

In Shipwreck Silver Coins bidders will find hundreds of Atocha (1622) silver coins, both rarities and wholesale lots, in addition to coins from dozens of shipwrecks around the world assembled by two different collectors.

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