More New Items! Sea Salvage and Year of the Dragon

That’s right! For a second week in a row, we have brand-new items for you to chose from. This week we have items that are certainly more recent that last week’s Roman slabs, but just as exciting, include a strange underwater salvage and dragons.

Sea Salvage, Spanish Colonial 1/2 Real

This salvaged coin is particularly mysterious. So mysterious, in fact, no one is sure precisely which shipwreck it comes from, if it even is from a wreck! These coins were recovered from the Rimac river in Peru. No one knows for sure how so much silver wound up on the bottom of that river, but one theory is that the coins were tossed over the nearby Puente de la Santa Rosa Bridge. It is a longstanding tradition for newlyweds to throw silver coins into the river for good luck.

Year of the Dragon Album

Secondly, we have a new album celebrating the Year of the Dragon! It contains a 10 cash coin in it from over a century ago, with a traditional dragon design front and center. Chinese/Lunar New Year wraps up on the 24th, so don’t wait to order this album. The Dragon, associated with luck, big successes, and imperial power, is the only mythological animal in the traditional twelve-year cycle. It won’t come around again until 2036.