8 reales. Spanish Monarchy. Shipwreck coins. Fernandus VI (1746-1759). 1754. Mexico. MM. Imperial and Royal Crown. Practically unaffected by saltwater, with most of the details complete and well defined. Very scarce in this grade. Recovered from the wreck of "La Auguste", sunk in 1761 off Nova Scotia, Canada. Slabbed by NGC as AU Details - Sea Salvaged. Special "Shipwreck Blue Label". The Auguste was carrying French officers, colonial administrators and aristocrats from Quebec back to France after the loss of Canada in the context of the Seven Years' War. On 15 November 1761, amid severe weather and after having suffered fire damage, the vessel struck a sandbar and subsequently sank in Aspy Bay, off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. Of the 121 people on board, only seven survived, while a significant assemblage of personal effects and coinage remained lost beneath the sea. Its modern recovery has yielded more than a thousand coins of various origins, together with numerous historical artefacts, making the wreck an important source for the study of 18th-century Atlantic monetary circulation. La Auguste

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Shipwreck coins. Fernandus VI (1746-1759). 8 reales. 1754. Mexico. MM. (Cal-487). Ag. Imperial and Royal Crown. Practically unaffected by saltwater, with most of the details complete and well defined. Very scarce in this grade.

Recovered from the wreck of "La Auguste", sunk in 1761 off Nova Scotia, Canada.

Slabbed by NGC as AU Details - Sea Salvaged. Special "Shipwreck Blue Label".

The Auguste was carrying French officers, colonial administrators and aristocrats from Quebec back to France after the loss of Canada in the context of the Seven Years' War. On 15 November 1761, amid severe weather and after having suffered fire damage, the vessel struck a sandbar and subsequently sank in Aspy Bay, off Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia.

Of the 121 people on board, only seven survived, while a significant assemblage of personal effects and coinage remained lost beneath the sea.

Its modern recovery has yielded more than a thousand coins of various origins, together with numerous historical artefacts, making the wreck an important source for the study of 18th-century Atlantic monetary circulation. Est...700,00.

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