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Books about Spanish Colonial
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THE PRACTICAL
BOOK OF COBS, 20th Anniversary (4th) Edition,
by Daniel Frank Sedwick (2007). Soft cover,
254 pages, illustrated with maps, diagrams and
photos. This popular book has been out of print
since 1995 and unavailable for a number of years
now, so this new edition should be a most welcome
addition to the market! Greatly expanded from the
previous edition (more than 100 pages longer!), this
20th Anniversary edition contains a long new section
on the shipwrecks that have yielded cobs over the
years, complete with a foldout map and specific
bibliographies for each wreck. Autographed by the
author. For further information about this book
click here.
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The Charles &
Joanna Silver Coinage of Santo Domingo, 1542-1552: A
study by Cori Sedwick Downing and Isaac Rudman Soft cover,
98 pages, illustrated with close up coin
photos.
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The Colonial Mint
of Guatemala: An Account of its 90-Year History with
an Illustrated Catalogue, by Carlos Jara and Carlos
M. Paiz (2021).
The Colonial Mint of Guatemala holds a
prominent place for numismatists and collectors due
to the unusual amount of rare and important pieces
it issued. However, its history is probably the
least known amongst the series of Spanish Colonial
mints, mainly because of the scant documented
information that has been published on the subject.
The present work aims to fill this gap, presenting
for the first time a complete and documented history
of the colonial period of this mint, from its
foundation until the independence of Guatemala in
1821, as well as a detailed cataloguing of the coins
and medals corresponding to this period. Hardcover,
529 pages. (limited quantity)
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SPANISH TREASURE
BARS From New World Shipwrecks
(Volume One), by Alan K. Craig and Ernest J.
Richards, Jr. (2003). This book combines
the many years of numismatic and historic study by
these two acknowledged scholars —and their
experience in their fields— to bring the reader a
detailed —yet understandable— overview of this
subject. In 228 8.5” x 11” softbound pages, Craig
and Richards ably explain what is known to date
regarding treasure ingots, accenting the text with
over 300 illustrations plus a 42-page “spread sheet”
of data on 963 of the silver bars recovered from
Nuestra Señora de Atocha. Charts, maps, photos (18
in color), and drawings depict the bars, people who
found them, the New World regions where they were
made, and details of their markings. signed by both authors |
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The Great
Transition at the Potosí Mint, 1649-1653: The
1649-1652 Crowned Shield Coinage and the
Countermarks of 1652 - Part A: The 1649-1652 Crowned
Shield Coinage 270 pages by Robert Mastalir.
An exhaustive study and census of the issues
of silver coinage in the Shield Type design from the
mint of Potosí, Bolivia, in the years 1649-1652,
covering three assayers (Zambrano, Rodas and Elgueta)
and four dates (1649, 1650, 1651 and 1652), with a
thorough treatment of every die and combination
(obverse and reverse) based on careful examination
of thousands of actual coins, most recovered from
the shipwrecks Capitana (sunk in 1654 off Ecuador)
and Maravillas (sunk in 1656 off the Bahamas), both
ships representing a time capsule of coinage that
was otherwise destroyed when new coinage at higher
value was instituted in 1652.
The Great Transition at the Potosí Mint,
1649-1653: The 1649-1652 Crowned Shield Coinage and
the Countermarks of 1652 - Part B: The Countermarks
of 1652 562 pages. The complexity of Potosí's silver coinage in the
Shield Type design of 1649-1652 is compounded by the
fact that most of it was countermarked by various
Royal representatives to attest to their proper
fineness, after the revelation of a mint scandal in
which it was discovered that Potosí's coinage from
prior decades had been struck from debased silver,
for which several officials were eventually
executed. This volume is a complete examination of
all the known countermarked coins (numbering in the
thousands), thoroughly organized into types
and subtypes, with complete census information for
all the countermarks. |
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The Great
Transition at the Potosí Mint 1649 - 1653: The 1652
Transitional 8 Reales (2015) by Robert MastalirThis book
describes in detail all the die-varieties of Potosi,
Bolivia, cob 8 reales (silver coins) struck in 1652,
a year of transition of design to what has become
known as the "pillars-and-waves" style of 1652-1773.
The previous design, up to and including 1652,
featured instead a full Habsburg coat-of-arms
(shield). This book also details the events leading
up to the change of design, particularly the
investigation and prosecution of fraud at the mine
and mint in the 1620s through 1640s that resulted in
silver coins that were underweight and below
standard in fineness.
The Great Transition at the Potosí Mint 1649 -
1653: The 1652 Transitional Minor Denominations 4,
2, 1 and 1/2 Reales. (2016) by Robert Mastalir.
This book describes in detail all the die-varieties
of Potosi, Bolivia, cob 4,2,1 and 1/2 reales (silver
coins) struck in 1652, a year of transition of
design to what has become known as the
"pillars-and-waves" style of 1652-1773. The previous
design, up to and including 1652, featured instead a
full Habsburg coat-of-arms (shield). This book also
details the events leading up to the change of
design, particularly the investigation and
prosecution of fraud at the mine and mint in the
1620s through 1640s that resulted in silver coins
that were underweight and below standard in
fineness. Also contained in this book are brief
descriptions of a couple shipwrecks (the Capitana of
1654 and the Maravillas of 1656) that yielded a
majority of these transitional coins recent decades,
enabling a rigorous die-study like this one to
finally be realized. The various die changes are
illustrated by photos and drawings throughout.
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El resello de las
macuquinas en Costa Rica (1846), by Jose A. Vargas
Zamora, Manuel B. Chacon Hidalgo and Josue I.
Sanchez Chaves (2021). (Spanish)
This book includes
enlarged images of the obverse and
reverse of 90 cob "macuquina" coins, some without
countermark and most with the 1846 countermark that
enabled their circulation in Costa Rica, for all the
denominations: one, two, four and eight reales. The
introductory pages contain a brief history of the
foreign coins with countermarks applied in the
country in 1841, 1845, 1846, 1849 and 1850. The book
concludes with an alphabetical index and information
on the coins that between 1847 and 1850, replaced
these countermarked cobs.
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SPAIN, PORTUGAL AND THE NEW WORLD,
by Krause-Mishler (2002). With forewords by
Daniel Frank Sedwick, David Fiero, and Roberto Jovel;
soft cover, large format (8½” x 11”), 645 pages,
covering all Spanish and Spanish colonial issues,
plus Republican issues to present from former
Spanish colonies (in addition to the Portuguese
material), including counterstamps, hence a great
boon to readers of my catalogs, with listings of
every date in every denomination and values for up
to 7 grades, and of course many photos. Now
offered at 40% off the former retail price!
Wholesale discounts for quantities. |
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Books about Shipwrecks
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TREASURE! , by
Peter Jones (2022).
describes the author's
personal journey with shipwreck treasure coins.The
book is profusely illustrated with color photos, and
includes full page pictures of a collection of 88
coins and medals related to shipwrecks. The book is
8.5 by 11 inches, hard back with 398 pages. Foreword
by Daniel Sedwick. Sections include Spanish
shipwreck stories, Dutch shipwreck stories, British
shipwreck stories, American shipwreck stories, other
nationality shipwreck stories. The book finishes
with a chapter on captured ships and other stories.
The first chapter reviews the history of money,
money in the Spanish New World, Potosi mining and
minting, the Spanish fleet system, the Dutch East
India Company, the history of diving, the Silk Road,
a brief history of ships, navigation and weather,
finding shipwrecks, and the politics of salvage. A
17-page glossary includes points about shipwrecks,
ship prefixes, types of ships, detailed Spanish
colonial cob identification guide, colonial rulers,
money systems and weights, Mexican, English, and
French metrology, US GDP, population, and labor
costs from 1790 to 2017, and maps of Spanish
viceroyalties.
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Treasure and
Tragedy, by Gavin Clackworthy (2021).
From
the foreword: "Its content boasts 21 chapters of 212
pages' of treasure salvage stories second to none.
No less than seven new virgin treasures, imagination
gripping stories, accompanied by wonderful, unique
photos and illustrations, fill this book. Gavin
Clackworthy takes the reader with him and his group
of top divers (called Sealit) along the Overberg
coastline and further afield in the Indian and
Atlantic oceans." 202 pages, softcover.
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El Tesoro del Atocha: Una Aventura Arqueológica de
400 millones de Dólares (Edición Especial en Español
Re-Impresa digitalmente exclusivamente durante la
Convención Cartagena 2021)
En este libro, el Dr. Duncan Mathewson III, Director
de Arqueología de la búsqueda del Nuestra Señora de
Atocha, comparte con nosotros gran cantidad del
material histórico rescatado de los naufragios del
Nuestra Señora de Atocha y del Santa Margarita,
proporcionándonos ahora esta visión del pasado a
través de los resultado de sus trabajos de
conservación y del estudio de este material,
incluyendo entre este, una vista, por primera vez, a
monedas acuñadas en el Nuevo Reino de Granada en
1621 y 1622, de las cuales no se conocía ejemplar
alguno hasta el descubrimiento de estos pecios. Tapa
dura – 160 páginas – Originalmente impreso in 1988.
Reimpresión digital exclusiva de 200 copias – libro
firmado por el autor.
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La Saga "Tumbaga" Tesoro de Los Conquistadores por
Augi Garcia (2019) Edicion en Español.
Soft cover, 128 pages, larger format (7" x 10"),
limited first edition (200 numbered copies). Before
there were coins in the New World, before there were
Spanish Treasure Fleets, and even before there were
any kind of European colonies in Mexico, the
conquistador Hernan Cortés and his men, through the
Tarascan Conquest by Cristóbal de Olid in 1522,
discovered a new precious-metal mix that led to an
improvised manufacture of so-called "tumbaga" bars:
a group of over 200 silver and gold ingots
discovered in the remains of an unidentified
ca.-1528 shipwreck off Grand Bahama Island in 1993.
This new edition includes expanded etymological
research, full color images along with new documents
and maps, plates of new silver and gold bars, as
well as a new chapter "The First Coinage of The
Americas" by Cori Sedwick-Downing.
Autographed by the author. (Spanish
Version) (SOLD
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THE "TUMBAGA" SAGA: TREASURE OF THE
CONQUISTADORS, Second Edition,
by Agustín ("Augi") García-Barneche (2018 Special
2021 Author's reprint).
Soft cover, 150 pages, larger format (7" x 10").
Before there were coins in the New World, before
there were Spanish Treasure Fleets, and even before
there were any kind of European colonies in Mexico,
the conquistador Hernan Cortés and his men, through
the Tarascan Conquest by Cristóbal de Olid in 1522,
discovered a new precious-metal mix that led to an
improvised manufacture of so-called "tumbaga" bars:
a group of over 200 silver and gold ingots
discovered in the remains of an unidentified
ca.-1528 shipwreck off Grand Bahama Island in 1993.
Autographed by the author and dedicated upon
request. just released December 23, 2021. (4 left) |
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Author's
Special edition
UV coated
and double thickness (special paper)
only 35
made.
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ISLA EL MUERTO AND
THE TREASURES OF THE CONSOLACION (2nd ed), by
William Gene Seliger (2008).
This
new book about the Consolación wreck of 1681 off
Ecuador was written by one of the salvagers, and as
such is a unique perspective you don't usually get
in writing! Published in Ecuador in limited
quantities, this book is actually in shorter supply
than the thousands of silver cobs from this wreck
currently on the market, for which this book is an
excellent accompaniment. 173 pages, large format,
softcover.
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Books about World Coins
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Las Monedas que circularon en la Capitanía General
de Puerto Rico (The Coins that circulated in the
Captaincy General of Puerto Rico)
by Ortiz Murias, Jorge
This book (written in Spanish) describes which coins
specifically circulated on the Island of Puerto Rico
during the period that the island was conquered and
colonized, both by the Spanish Empire and the United
States of America, between 1508 and 1900. The
circulation of coins in the time of the Colonization
of the New World was somewhat complicated, due to
the diversity of values in circulation in European
countries, those produced in the mints of the new
territories and the fluctuations in the value of the
metals used. A chapter of this work deals with the
problem that caused the change of the monetary
system from Spanish to North American, since each of
them is based on different units, weights and metal
purity, which caused disagreement with the
population, when the North American authorities they
established the equivalence for the change. The
author also deals with the first circulation bills
on that island, which are extremely scarce. ISBN
978-9945-9117-1-8 / Number of pages: 160 - Binding:
Softcover - Language: Spanish |
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Monedas Provisionales del Estado Del Salvador -
Provisional Coins of El Salvador, by Miguel
Villavicencio *in Spanish.
This Catalog has the purpose of listing and
classifying the first coins produced in El Salvador,
between 1828 and 1835, while it was one of the
States of the Federal Republic of Central America.
It includes a synthesis of the history, to
understand the circumstances that motivated El
Salvador to stand against the Federal Republic and
the reason behind the coinage of El Salvador. These
emblematic coins that mark the beginning of the
transformation of the Salvadoran state into an
independent republic.
Very few collectors know about these types of coins
and the historical legacy they contain. This book is
trying to rescue them from the lack of information
and study material and puts the effort on making a
complete inventory of the different varieties,
trying to simplify these coins by types,
illustrating the differences between them, and
explaining what the marks and elements found on the
coins and their representation. 120 pages in full
color. |
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THE GOLD COINAGE OF GRAN COLOMBIA,
by Frank Sedwick (1991). Still considered the
most complete and accurate reference on
post-independence Colombian gold coins (including
Ecuador and Venezuela, as they were once part of "Gran
Colombia"), with values and rarities for all
known issues. Soft cover, 90 pages, brand new
(please inquire for bulk discounts to dealers). |
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Medallic
Portraits of Admiral Vernon: Medals Sometimes lie.
By John W. Adams, Fernando Chao (h) and Anne E.
Bentley
The authors’ "History
of the Events" sets the historical record straight
and is accompanied by a bibliography, a guide to
collecting the series, a chapter on the metals
utilized, and a vital series of appendices
comprising concordances, a census, biographical
notes on prominent collectors, a guide to grading,
and other germane topics. These sections are the
soul of the book; its heart is the extensive,
detailed catalogue of "The Medals Themselves,"
comprising two thirds of the volume. Here, over 275
medals are depicted in full color enlargements,
accompanied by painstakingly detailed descriptions
printed in two colors for ease of use.†Dr. Joel J.
Orosz has termed the book "one of the signal
triumphs of modern numismatic scholarship" and
concludes that "In fact, Medallic Portraits of
Admiral Vernon†does such a superb job of defining
the previously indefinable, the only numismatic book
to which it can be appropriately compared is
Sylvester Sage Crosby's Early Coins of America."
2010. Quarto, original cream cloth, gilt, jacket.
240 pages, illustrated in color. |
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Books about Paper Money
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MEXICAN PAPER MONEY, by Cory Frampton
(2010) Compiled
and edited by Mexican currency specialist Cory
Frampton together with Duane Douglas, Alberto
Hidalgo and Elmer Powell. This major reference
includes over 2,800 images, most of which are new
digital color images obtained from a variety of
major public and private collections. 424 pages
9x12” hard cover |
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books are generally in print and available in
quantity, sometimes published by us or with
exclusive distribution in U.S. For more specialized
references and rare books and
catalogs, please visit
www.workmansbooks.com
, run by my colleague and friend, Alan
Workman, whose site is dedicated solely to books and
catalogs pertaining to treasure-type items,
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