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    Sedwick Auction to Feature Rare Gold 8 Escudos Royal Recovered from 1715 Fleet

    Oct 30, 2020 3 minutes

    A Royal gold 8 escudos, recovered from a sunken Spanish treasure fleet will be up for sale on Nov. 17 in Daniel Frank Sedwick, LLC’s Treasure Auction 28, the firm announced in an Oct. 7 press release. It is NGCgraded MS-66 and is the only example of its date slabbed by any third-party grading company. The auction firm estimates the coin at $300,000 and up.

    “This coin is the pinnacle of Spanish colonial numismatics,” said Daniel Sedwick, president and founder of the company. “As a Royal 8 escudos,

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