El Cazador, or The Hunter in English, was a ship that was roughly ninety feet in length, had two masts, and a shallow draft. She most likely carried eighteen fine bronze guns. Under Captain Gabriel de Campos's leadership, the Spanish brig of war sailed on January 11, 1784, from Veracruz, Mexico. 17 metric tons of freshly minted silver reales, the Spanish currency in use at the time, were loaded into the ship.

El Cazador departed the Mexican coast in January 1784 and made his way into the Louisiana bayou. The ship went down somewhere between Veracruz and New Orleans, and it was declared missing in June. For the Spanish government, the more than 400,000 silver reales on board represented a substantial sum of money.

We all have heard about stories of great treasures and silver lost at sea due to shipwrecks.

From many collapsed ships, silver has been recovered.

The stories behind shipwrecks are interesting, and the history surrounding the silver is fascinating.

One such ship is the Spanish ship El Cazador that was lost at sea in 1784.

It was discovered on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico in 1993 by a group of fishermen.

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Presenting...

A genuine Spanish silver coin from the wreck of the ship El Cazador NGC Shipwreck Certification

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"Pieces of Eight" 1873 MO FF Mexico Reales

Type: Milled Coinage, year 1973 Composition: Silver Obverse Description: Armored bust of Charles III, facing right Reverse Description: Crowned shield flanked by pillars with banner, normal initials and mint mark Obverse Legend: CAROLUS • III • DEI • GRATIA •

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Fifty miles south of New Orleans, on August 2, 1993, the trawler Mistake captain Jerry Murphy, of Pascagoula, Mississippi, was fishing in the Gulf of Mexico. Its net hung on a snag while it fished. The crew discovered the net was full of silver coins when they lifted it and threw its contents upon the deck. The coins included the year 1783 and stamps from the Spanish mint in Mexico.

When the ship arrived in Grand Bay, Alabama, its treasure was kept in a safe inside the former Grand Bay State Bank structure. Scarsdale Coin's Jonathan Lerner was commissioned by the Reahard estate's executors in December 2004 to value the coins. The assessment was finished in February of 2005.

The Franklin Mint is currently in charge of administering it.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Cazador_(ship)
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-13-mn-22288-story.html
https://boards.ngccoin.com/topic/431537-thoughts-on-getting-some-el-cazador-shipwreck-coins-submitted-and-graded-as-genuine/
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