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TREASURE! 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…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
TREASURE! 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.
Autorenporträt
Peter is a life member of ANA, NENA and USMEXNA, and a member of ANS, IBSS, C4, and MCA, and president of his local coin club, the Mansfield Numismatic Society in Connecticut. He has also authored Notable Notes, Colonial History in Your Hands, Dow Jones by Peter Jones, Commemorative Coin Tales, The First Medals of America, The First Coins of the Americas, and, with Cynthia Adams, Therapeutic Communication, now in its third edition. A graduate of both Oxford and Cambridge, and an MBA from the University of Connecticut, Peter moved from England with his wife and three daughters to rural Connecticut in 1977 where he practiced internal medicine for 39 years.