NGC 10 Cash Coin Admiral Gardner Shipwreck + Blackbeard SILVER Half Real

Admiral Gardner (1808) Shipwreck Treasure 10 Cash NGC(MG). This coin was on the bottom of the English Channel for almost 200 years. Blackbeard: Silver Treasure Coin from the Golden Age of Piracy (album) (half real). Piracy in the Caribbean arose because of a perfect storm of events-including a literal perfect storm.

First, the War of Spanish Succession, a "World War Zero" that saw the major European powers enjoined in battle for a dozen years, ended in 1714, leaving thousands of seasoned seamen suddenly unemployed. Finally, the Spanish "treasure fleet" of 1715 was lost to a hurricane off the coast of Florida, with all that gold and silver lost to the vasty deep.

A loose confederation of pirates launched a raid on Spanish divers trying to salvage the treasure, a group that included notorious figures like Henry Jennings, Black Sam Bellamy, Benjamin Hornigold, and Edward Teach, better known by his nickname: Blackbeard. Blackbeard was a shrewd, calculating leader who spurned the use of violence, relying instead on his fearsome image and reputation to terrify those he plundered.

This Spanish silver coin, a "land find, " was probably the buried treasure of Blackbeard or another Caribbean pirate.

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