Neat 2 Reales pillar minor recovered from the El Cazador shipwreck. Scarce date and denomination to find. The El Cazador sank in the Gulf of Mexico in 1784 carrying silver coins from Mexico to New Orleans in hopes to bolster the economy of Spanish Louisiana. Coins of this type circulated in the American colonies. This coin would have been U.S. legal tender until 1857.
Neat 2 Reales pillar minor recovered from the El Cazador shipwreck. Scarce date and denomination to find. The El Cazador sank in the Gulf of Mexico in 1784 carrying silver coins from Mexico to New Orleans in hopes to bolster the economy of Spanish Louisiana. Coins of this type circulated in the American colonies. This coin would have been U.S. legal tender until 1857.
