Mexico (Spanish) . 8 Reales. 1740. Shipwreck treasure #sherborne There is a metal flaw

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

Boxed with wax paper packet and medal bar ribbon

bronze and enamel example engraved to George Thomas

4th Battery 1st Brigade Lancashire Division Royal Artillery

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 There is a metal flawShipwreck 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