EXTREMELY RARE Kempen Hoard circa 1575 22K Gold Four Escudo - the Legendary Doubloon - 18K Gold Pendant | Artifact #4693
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description: The Legendary Pirate Era 22K Gold 2 Escudo "Doubloon" from the Kempen Hoard... now in an Heirloom Pendant Please Note: This is an authentic Spanish Gold Escudo Treasure Coin, and you will receive the exact pendant in the photographs and description. Size including bezel: 1 1/4" Across, 1 3/4" Tall - the width of a 50 cent piece - SEE VIDEO It began with the kind of faint metal-detector signal that was almost not worth digging... One evening in 2021, a Dutch treasure hunter was making his way back to his car after an unsuccessful search in the Kempen region of the Netherlands. His detector gave a modest signal—the sort that usually meant a scrap of aluminum foil. He decided to dig anyway. The first shovel went straight to the target. In the loose earth was something small, round and unmistakably yellow. A gold coin. He photographed it, hardly believing his luck, and started toward the car. He had taken only a few steps when his detector sounded again. Less than a meter away, an enormous silver coin emerged from the soil. Then another coin appeared... and another. Soon he was uncovering gold and silver treasure coins alongside fragments of the pottery vessel in which they had been buried centuries before. His jacket pockets filled. Then his finds pouch. Eventually he abandoned his shovel altogether, recovering much of the hoard with his bare hands and filling his backpack with treasure. Among that extraordinary discovery were Spanish gold Escudos—the legendary gold coins remembered in pirate lore as Doubloons. Of the 250 coins discovered, only 16 were Spanish 22K gold doubloons. This coin is one of them. For centuries, Spanish gold Escudos traveled throughout an extraordinary world of kings and merchants, galleons and counting houses, soldiers, adventurers, privateers and pirates. Together with the great silver Pieces of Eight, they helped build the world we now know during the Age of Sail. But unlike most surviving Escudos, this coin comes with something exceptionall…
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