Tagged: Royal

LATIN AMERICA BOASTS SOME BEAUTIFUL AS WELL AS VALUABLE COINS

In honor of National Hispanic Heritage Month and to celebrate the long contributing history of Hispanics and Latinos in America, Liberty Coin and Currency has compiled a short list of valuable Hispanic related coins.     1715 Royal Most recently these coins have been making headlines by being discovered amongst the fabled shipwrecks of 1715… Read more »

The Doomed Spanish Treasure Fleet of 1715

With a slight breeze riffling the water, twelve ships set sail from Havana. Eleven were bound for Spain, loaded with gold and silver. Among them were the flagship Capitana and Urca de Lima. The twelfth ship was the Griffon, a French merchant vessel that had been detained in port. Afraid that word would leak of… Read more »