1/2 REAL SILVER SPANISH LAND TREASURE *DATED* *1770* #b

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1770
1/2 reale mexico
Genuine Pillar
In January of 1784, the economy in Spain's Louisiana colony was faltering. The king of Spain decided to send the warship El cazador to Veracruz Mexico to be loaded up with 450 000 pieces of silver to trade the worthless paper money and short up the sagging economy. The ship encountered a violent storm just 50 miles from his destination in sank Spain never recovered his losses and had to eventually give the territory to France in 1800. Three years later the French sold it to the United States that was Louisiana purchase. This historic coin lay at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico for over 200 years until 1993 when a fisherman snagged his nets on something solid. Perhaps some rocks. When he brought up his nats it was not rocks that fell from his nets onto the deck. It was dozens of sober coins coins from the El cazador the wreck that changed the world