Mexico (Spanish) . 8 Reales. 1740. Shipwreck treasure #sherborne 4th Battery 1st Brigade Lancashire

4th Battery 1st Brigade Lancashire Division Royal Artillery

bronze and enamel example engraved to George Thomas

including the sought after dual date EEC 50 pence

There is a metal flaw at 10 o'clock on the reverse

This is most likely because the pair were unable to be delivered and they would have been destroyed after a holding period making this pair his only available entitlement

Mexico (Spanish) . 8 Reales. 1740. Shipwreck treasure #sherborne 4th Battery 1st Brigade LancashireShipwreck Treasure, VOC Hollandia Wreck, Sank Scilly Isles 1743. Silver 8 Reales Spain, Philip V 1740. Provenance : Pedigreed to the Sotheby, Parke Bernet auction of June 1972, with original lot tags. Recovered from: Hollandia, sunk in 1743 off the Isles of Scilly, southwest of England. Hollandia was a ship of the Dutch East India Company (Dutch: Vereenigde Oost Indische Compagnie; VOC) which wrecked on Annet, Isles of Scilly on 13 July 1743 causing