The books behind the desk

Every coin we document gets checked against the standard literature of this field — the catalogs, the die studies, the wreck records the serious collectors and the auction houses actually use. This is that shelf.

The Reference Shelf is the input; the Research Library reports are the output built from it.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Buccaneers, Privateers, Freebooters and Filibusters 1493–1720 — Cruz Apestegui (2002)

An illustrated history of piracy in the Caribbean from 1493 to 1720. Apestegui follows buccaneers, privateers, freebooters and filibusters against the background of Spanish settlement and European rivalry, using historical sources, maps and period imagery to place their activities in context.

Piracy belongs to the wider history of the Spanish treasure trade. This book supplies the political and maritime context behind attacks on ships, ports and trade routes, and helps distinguish state-authorised privateering from other forms of maritime raiding. It complements the fleet histories and pirate accounts already on the shelf.

Readers seeking an illustrated introduction to Caribbean piracy, and collectors who want the wider historical setting of the trade routes behind Spanish colonial coins.

Gold Rush Treasures from the SS Central America — Christie's New York · in association with Spink (Auction catalogue, 14 December 2000)

The Christie's New York catalogue for the 14 December 2000 sale, held in association with Spink, of gold recovered from the SS Central America. The 1857 wreck's California Gold Rush material is recorded through lot descriptions and photographs of gold coins and ingots.

This is a dated auction record, rather than a retrospective wreck narrative. It preserves how Central America gold was described and offered at this particular sale, making it useful for comparing individual lots, assayer markings and documented auction history. Its estimates belong to the 2000 sale, not today's market.

Collectors and researchers working on SS Central America provenance, California Gold Rush coinage, private-mint gold and assayers' ingots, especially when tracing an object to the December 2000 sale.

The Research Coin Collection: 237 New World Spanish Coins from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha — Christie's New York · catalogue compiled by Sandy McKinney

A specialist Christie's catalogue for a representative collection of 237 New World Spanish coins recovered from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha, offered for sale as a collection. The title page credits Sandy McKinney as compiler and James Lamb as specialist in charge. The photographed copy has a grey spiral-bound Christie's New York cover.

It records a defined group of Atocha coins together, providing a focused reference alongside the broader wreck histories and auction catalogues. For provenance research, a match to a specific entry is more meaningful than a general reference to the wreck. The handwritten ownership note in this copy is not a publication date.

Atocha collectors, Spanish colonial cob specialists and researchers comparing documented coins or tracing the history of this particular 237-coin collection.

Spain's Men of the Sea: Daily Life on the Indies Fleets in the Sixteenth Century — Pablo E. Pérez-Mallaína · translated by Carla Rahn Phillips (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998)

A social history of the sailors, officers and boys who crewed Spain's Atlantic fleets in the 1500s. It begins in Seville, the gateway to the Indies, follows the convoys to Veracruz, Cartagena, Nombre de Dios, Portobelo and Havana, and reconstructs life aboard — who signed on and why, how they ate, slept, worked and were paid.

Every cob on a 16th- or early 17th-century wreck crossed the ocean in the hands of these crews. The book supplies the human and operational side of the fleet system — the people and routines that moved the silver — which coin catalogs and wreck narratives rarely cover.

Collectors who want to understand the fleets behind their coins as working ships with real crews, and readers of Walton's fleet history looking for the view from the deck.

Lost Gold of the Republic: The Remarkable Quest for the Greatest Shipwreck Treasure of the Civil War Era — Priit J. Vesilind (Shipwreck Heritage Press, 2005)

The story of the side-wheel steamer SS Republic — lost in a hurricane off Georgia in October 1865 on a run from New York to New Orleans — and of Greg Stemm and John Morris of Odyssey Marine Exploration, whose long search located the wreck in 2003. Written by former National Geographic editor Priit J. Vesilind.

It is the book-length account behind the Republic coin record: the ship's Civil War history, the reported specie cargo, and the deep-water search and recovery that brought tens of thousands of U.S. gold and silver coins back to the surface. For any Republic coin, this is the provenance story in narrative form.

Anyone holding or considering an SS Republic coin, and readers who want the deep-ocean, Civil War-era counterpart to the Spanish galleon books on this shelf.

Lost Treasures on the Old Spanish Trail — George A. Thompson (Western Epics, Salt Lake City, 1987)

An illustrated history of the Old Spanish Trail and the lands around it, from the conquistadors and the legend of Cíbola, through Spain's push north, to the traces of the trail still worn into sandstone today — with the lost-mine and buried-treasure legends that grew up along the route.

It is the overland side of the Spanish treasure story. Most of the shelf follows silver by sea; this book follows the legends and routes of Spain's northern frontier, and is a useful reminder of how treasure lore and documented history get tangled together.

Readers curious about Spain's inland frontier and the treasure legends of the American Southwest. Treat the legends as folklore, not as evidence.

Man Overboard: "Captain Fizz and the Treasure Bizz" — Carl Fismer & Sam Milner (CreateSpace, 2017)

A collection of stories from veteran treasure diver Capt. Carl "Fizz" Fismer, written up with Sam Milner — humor, daring, and the corruption and deceit of the treasure business as seen from the inside by someone who has worked it.

Most treasure books celebrate the finds. This one is about the trade itself — how the business of salvage actually runs, and the characters in it. It is useful context for a collector trying to read between the lines of a dealer's or salvor's story.

Collectors who want an insider's informal look at the modern treasure business, told as stories rather than history.

Shipwrecked 1622: The Lost Treasure of Philip IV — The Queens Museum · Janet M. Schneider (Queens Museum exhibition guide, 1981)

The illustrated guide to the Queens Museum exhibition of October 17 – November 29, 1981, which put treasures and artifacts from the 1622 fleet — the Atocha and Santa Margarita recoveries — on public display in New York, with photographs of the recovered objects.

It is an early public record of the 1622 material, published before the Atocha's main pile was found in 1985. That makes it a period document for how the first recoveries were presented, and a reference point when checking older 1622 provenance claims.

Atocha and 1622-fleet collectors who want period documents alongside the Mathewson and Christie's records on this shelf.

A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates — Captain Charles Johnson (The Folio Society, 2018 · introduction by Margarette Lincoln)

The 1724 classic that created most of what we picture when we think of Golden Age pirates — biographies of Blackbeard, Bartholomew Roberts, Anne Bonny, Mary Read and others. No one knows who "Captain Charles Johnson" really was. This Folio Society edition follows the 1728 text with modernised spelling, period illustrations, and an introduction by Margarette Lincoln.

It is the founding source for pirate history and pirate legend alike, written within living memory of the men it describes. Pirates raided the same Spanish treasure trade that fills our coin trays, and this is where the story — true and embellished — starts.

Readers who want the original pirate source rather than a retelling, and collectors interested in the Golden Age of piracy behind the Whydah and the treasure trade. Read it as a period account, not settled fact.

The Mid-Atlantic Treasure Coast: Coin Beaches & Treasure Shipwrecks from Long Island to the Eastern Shore — Stephen M. Voynick (Middle Atlantic Press, 1984)

A regional guide to the coin beaches and treasure shipwrecks of the coast from Long Island through New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland to Virginia's Eastern Shore — where coins have washed ashore, and the wrecks behind them.

It covers the waters closest to our Sea Isle City desk. The Mid-Atlantic is rarely in the Spanish treasure books, and this guide maps the local wrecks and beach finds that turn up in collections from this coast.

Collectors and beachcombers on the Mid-Atlantic coast, and readers of the New Jersey shipwreck books already on the shelf.

Shipwreck: A Saga of Sea Tragedy and Sunken Treasure — Dave Horner (Sheridan House, 1999)

The true story of two great 17th-century galleons — the Concepción (1641) and the Maravillas (1656) — told through the eyewitness diary of a Spanish padre, Diego Portichuelo de Rivadeneira, who survived three shipwrecks. Horner weaves in three centuries of salvage attempts, including his own work on one of the galleons.

It joins a first-hand 17th-century account to the modern salvage record of two wrecks that put many cobs into today's market. For Concepción or Maravillas material, it gives the voyage, the loss and the later recoveries in one book.

Collectors of Concepción or Maravillas cobs, and anyone who wants a primary-source-based narrative of a galleon loss.

Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the Man Who Found Her — Barry Clifford with Paul Perry (Cliff Street Books / HarperCollins, 1999)

Barry Clifford's account of his search for the Whydah, the pirate ship of Black Sam Bellamy wrecked off Cape Cod in April 1717, and of the excavation that followed — told alongside Bellamy's own history.

The Whydah is the first pirate shipwreck to be found and verified. Pirates carried coin taken from the trade routes, so this book shows Spanish-colonial silver from a very different angle: plunder, not cargo.

Readers drawn to the pirate side of the treasure story, and collectors who want to see how a wreck's identity was proven.

Pottery from Spanish Shipwrecks, 1500–1800 — Mitchell W. Marken (University Press of Florida, 1994)

An archaeological study of the earthenware recovered from seventeen Spanish shipwreck sites, from Britain and Bermuda to Florida, Texas, Louisiana and the Caribbean. It covers the colonial trade, each wreck, and detailed analysis of olive jars, tableware and other pottery, with tables, drawings and photographs.

Pottery is one of the main ways archaeologists date and identify a wreck. Marken's olive-jar classification is still a standard reference — useful when a wreck's date or identity rests on artifacts, not just coins.

Specialists and serious collectors working on wreck dating, identity and non-coin artifacts.

New Brunswick Sea Stories: Phantom Ships and Pirate's Gold, Shipwrecks and Iron Men — Dorothy Dearborn · illustrations by Ralph Olive (Neptune Publishing, Saint John, 1998)

A collection of short sea stories from two centuries of New Brunswick shipbuilding and sailing — phantom ships, sea monsters, mutiny and murder, alongside the hard-driving "Iron Men" who sailed the province's ships around the world.

It is maritime folklore and local history rather than treasure scholarship. It sits on the shelf for the North Atlantic shipwreck and seafaring background, and as a reminder of how sea legends form.

Readers who enjoy maritime folklore and North Atlantic sea history. Read the legends as stories, not evidence.

Treasures of the Spanish Main: Shipwrecked Galleons in the New World — John Christopher Fine (Lyons Press, 2006)

A well-illustrated survey of Spanish treasure wrecks, with text and underwater photography by John Christopher Fine. It covers the 1622 fleet, the Concepción, the Maravillas, the Jupiter Beach wreck, the San José, the 1715 Fleet and the 1733 Fleet — the voyages and the modern divers who worked them.

It covers many of the wrecks behind the coins we handle, in one book. It is a good overview before going deeper into the single-wreck books and catalogs on this shelf.

New and intermediate collectors who want one illustrated overview of the major Spanish treasure wrecks.

Gold, Galleons & Archaeology: The History of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet and the True Story of the Great Florida Treasure Find — Robert F. Burgess & Carl J. Clausen (Bobbs-Merrill, 1976)

The story of the 1715 Spanish Plate Fleet, wrecked by a hurricane off Florida's east coast, and of the modern finds that followed. Co-author Carl J. Clausen was an archaeologist on early 1715 work, so the book pairs the history with the archaeology. It was later reissued as Florida's Golden Galleons.

The 1715 Fleet is one of the most important sources of Mexican and South American cobs in the market today. This book is an early, archaeologist-informed account of how the fleet was lost and found.

Anyone with a 1715 Fleet coin, and readers of the 1715 Fleet web edition and Shipwrecks and Their Coins Vol. 3 already on this site.

The Spanish Treasure Fleets — Timothy R. Walton (Pineapple Press, 2002, ISBN 1561642614)

A narrative history of the Spanish treasure fleets — the annual convoys that carried New World silver and gold from the Indies to Spain from the 16th through the 18th century — told through the story of the pieces of eight that became the first American currency. Walton traces the expeditions, the maritime routes, and the coinage system that financed the Spanish Empire.

The fleets are the connective tissue behind nearly every wreck on the shelf — the Atocha, 1715 Fleet, 1733 Fleet, and the South Seas galleons all ran on this same convoy system. Walton gives the reader the operational and economic picture the individual wreck books treat only in passing: how the fleets were assembled, sailed, and lost.

Collectors who want the wider trade-route and currency context behind their coins, and new readers entering Spanish colonial numismatics through the fleet story rather than a single wreck.

Gold and Silver of the Atocha and Santa Margarita — Christie's New York (Christie's, 1988 [confirm])

The original Christie's New York auction catalog for the June 14–15, 1988 sale of gold and silver recovered from the Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita — the two Spanish galleons lost in the 1622 hurricane off the Florida Keys. The catalog photographs and describes the lots: gold and silver coins, jewelry and religious gold, bullion, and navigational instruments, with lot descriptions and estimates from the sale.

This is a primary auction record — the market document for Atocha and Santa Margarita material at the moment a major tranche of the Fisher recovery came to public sale. For any Atocha-era cob or gold artifact, it is the reference point for how the material was lotted, graded, and valued in 1988, and a check on provenance claims tied to that sale.

Specialist collectors and researchers working Atocha or 1622-fleet provenance, and anyone verifying a lot or attribution tied to the 1988 Christie's sale.

Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire — Julian Sancton (Penguin Random House [confirm], ISBN 0593594177)

A narrative-nonfiction account of the centuries-long quest for the San José — the Spanish galleon lost to the British in 1708 off Cartagena with a cargo of silver and gold — told through the modern hunt for the wreck and the legacy of the Spanish Empire it carried. Written by Julian Sancton, bestselling author of Madhouse at the End of the Earth.

The San José is one of the richest and most contested wreck sites in the Americas, and its salvage story sits at the intersection of colonial history, modern treasure litigation, and Colombia's claim to the wreck. For any San José-era or South Seas wreck material, this is the readable narrative context behind the court cases and the coin record.

Readers who want the human and legal story of the San José hunt alongside the existing catalog on the shelf, and anyone entering South Seas wreck material.

Treasure of the Atocha: A $400 Million Archaeological Adventure — R. Duncan Mathewson III (Pisces Books / E.P. Dutton, 1986 [confirm])

The archaeological account of the search for and recovery of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha — the Spanish galleon lost in the 1622 hurricane off the Florida Keys — written by R. Duncan Mathewson III, the archaeological director of the Mel Fisher expedition, with a foreword by Mel Fisher.

It is the project archaeologist's own record of the Atocha find — the excavation methods, the artifact record, and how a scattered reef wreck was worked into a documented recovery. For any Atocha-era cob, this is the human and methodological context behind the salvage.

Anyone who owns or is considering an Atocha or 1622 fleet coin, and readers who want the archaeological side of the Fisher recovery rather than the coin catalog alone.

Shipwrecks Off the New Jersey Coast — Walter Krotee & Richard Krotee ([confirm edition/year])

A survey of wrecks along the New Jersey shore — the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic' — by Walter and Richard Krotee, covering the vessels lost and the local salvage and diving record. This copy is signed by the authors.

It is a firsthand, local account of the wrecks closest to DTR's Sea Isle City home waters — the context that sits behind any Jersey Shore artifact, and a complement to Buchholz's broader survey already on the shelf.

Anyone interested in East Coast wreck history, particularly the New Jersey shore and its diving community.

Shipwrecks and Their Coins, Vol. 6 — The 1733 Spanish Treasure Fleet — Ernie "SeaScribe" Richards (En Rada Publications [confirm])

Volume 6 of Richards's series, covering the 1733 Spanish treasure fleet — the New Spain fleet lost in a July 1733 hurricane off the Florida Keys, its wreck accounts and salvage history, and the Mexico City and Lima silver recovered from its wrecks.

The 1733 fleet is the other great Florida-reef treasure wreck group alongside the 1715 fleet, and its coins circulate widely on the market. This volume ties the wreck history to the coin types that come off it — the check a buyer needs before accepting a 1733-fleet attribution.

Collectors and researchers buying or cataloguing 1733 Fleet coins, and those working Florida Keys salvage history.

Shipwrecks and Their Coins, Vol. 5 — The 1641 New Spain Fleet 'Almiranta' — Ernie "SeaScribe" Richards (En Rada Publications [confirm])

Volume 5 of Richards's series, on the almiranta of the 1641 New Spain fleet — Nuestra Senora de la Pura y Limpia Concepcion — lost on the Abrojos (Silver Shoals) north of Hispaniola, and the Mexico City cob silver recovered from her.

Concepcion material sits at the early end of the datable Mexico City cob record and has a long, tangled salvage history from the 1680s to the 1970s. This volume is the coin-side account of what came off her and when.

Collectors of early Mexico City cobs and researchers tracing 17th-century salvage claims.

Shipwrecks and Their Coins, Vol. 3 — The 1715 Spanish Treasure Plate Fleet — Ernie "SeaScribe" Richards (En Rada Publications [confirm])

Volume 3 of Richards's series, covering the fleet lost in the July 1715 hurricane along Florida's east coast and the Mexico City, Lima, and Potosi silver and gold recovered from its wrecks.

The 1715 Fleet is the single most-traded shipwreck coin group in the American market. This volume ties salvage history to what the coins themselves show, which is exactly the check a buyer needs before accepting an attribution.

Anyone buying or cataloguing 1715 Fleet coins, and researchers working Florida salvage history.

Shipwrecks and Their Coins, Vol. 4 — The 1740 Dutch East Indiaman 'Rooswijk' — Ernie "SeaScribe" Richards (En Rada Publications [confirm])

Volume 4 of Richards's series, on the VOC ship Rooswijk, lost on the Goodwin Sands off Kent in 1740, and the Spanish American silver — Mexico City pillar-and-wave and cob 8 reales — recovered from her.

Rooswijk silver circulates on the market as a distinct, datable group, and the wreck shows how Spanish colonial coin moved through Dutch hands. This volume is the coin-side reference for that group.

Collectors and researchers handling Rooswijk-attributed silver or 18th-century VOC wreck material.

Shipwrecks and Their Coins, Vol. 2 — The 1654 'Capitana' & 1655 'Almiranta' — Ernie "SeaScribe" Richards (En Rada Publications [confirm])

Volume 2 of Richards's shipwreck-and-coin series, covering the 1654 Capitana (Jesús María de la Limpia Concepción) and the 1655 Almiranta — the wreck accounts, salvage history, and the coins that came off each.

These two losses are the reference points for mid-17th-century Potosí and Lima silver on the market. When a coin is offered as 1654 Capitana or 1655 Almiranta salvage, this is where the claim gets checked.

Collectors and researchers working on mid-17th-century Peruvian cobs and their salvage provenance.

Shipwrecks and Their Coins, Vol. 1 — The Atocha: The 1622 Spanish Treasure Fleet — Ernie Richards (En Rada Publications [confirm])

The first volume in Ernie Richards's shipwreck-and-coin series, covering the 1622 Spanish treasure fleet — the loss of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Santa Margarita, the salvage record, and the coins recovered from those wrecks.

Richards is the long-running editor behind the Plus Ultra shipwreck-coin literature; this volume ties the 1622 wreck history directly to the coin types that come off it, which is exactly the link a buyer needs when checking an Atocha-era attribution.

Collectors and researchers working on 1622 fleet coins and salvage provenance.

Untangling the Record — A Contemporary Review of Potosí and Lima Mint Coins and Assayer History from the Mint Openings up to 1622 — Carol Tedesco (2nd ed., Seastory Press)

A specialist monograph correcting a long-perpetuated misattribution — early Potosí assayers R, M, L, and B were wrongly assigned to the Lima mint — reconstructing the accurate assayer identities and timelines for the Potosí and Lima mints from their openings through 1622, with extensive source citations.

It is the current corrective record for Potosí/Lima assayer attribution up to 1622 — exactly the period the Atocha and Santa Margarita coins fall in. Anyone attributing an early cob by assayer needs this before trusting an older reference.

Specialists and researchers attributing 16th–early-17th-century Potosí or Lima cobs by assayer.

Treasure Coins of the Nuestra Señora de Atocha and the Santa Margarita — Carol Tedesco (3rd ed., Seastory Press)

A detailed guide to the silver reales 'treasure' coins recovered from the 1622 fleet wrecks Atocha and Santa Margarita — how the coins look when found, how they are cleaned, conserved, and graded, their 17th-century values, and how to identify mint, markings, and assayer.

It ties specific coin types to the two most famous 1622 wrecks and gives the current assayer identity and timeline for the Potosí, Lima, and Mexico City mints up to 1622 — the attribution backbone for any Atocha-era cob.

Collectors and specialists who own or are researching Atocha/Santa Margarita silver and need assayer timelines alongside the wreck context.

New Jersey Shipwrecks: 350 Years in the Graveyard of the Atlantic — Margaret Thomas Buchholz (2004 [confirm edition])

A large-format hardcover survey of three and a half centuries of wrecks on the New Jersey coast — the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic' — from 18th-century sailing ships through steam and oil, with 142 historic photographs and illustrations plus a listing of hundreds of wrecks along the Jersey Shore.

It is the standard popular record of the wrecks closest to DTR's Sea Isle City home waters — the context that sits behind any Jersey Shore artifact.

Anyone interested in East Coast wreck history, particularly the New Jersey shore.

Treasures of a Lost Fleet II — 1715 Fleet Society (Ben Costello, ed.) (Numbered limited ed., 2022)

The 1715 Fleet Society's second collected volume of its 'Treasure of the Month' features — a coin-by-coin showcase of documented 1715 Fleet artifacts recovered between January 2017 and December 2021, each with the Society's accompanying research text.

It is a growing, photographed registry of attributed 1715 Fleet pieces assembled by the field's dedicated society — a comparison set for anyone authenticating or researching a 1715 Fleet coin.

Collectors and specialists working with 1715 Fleet material who want documented examples alongside the Society's notes.

The Last Voyage of the San Miguel de Archangel — Robert H. Baer (2012 [confirm])

The project archaeologist's account of the accidental discovery of the San Miguel de Archangel — a Spanish vessel on a secret mission carrying a sample of the 'Star of Lima' coinage, minted illegally by the Count Alba de Liste, bound from Peru to the King of Spain circa 1659, and wrecked off Florida with little note in the records.

It is a firsthand wreck narrative tied to a rare and politically charged Lima coinage — the kind of context that separates a documented piece from a loose cob with a story attached.

Collectors and specialists interested in Lima mint history, 'Star of Lima' coinage, and Florida wreck archaeology.

The San Jose anno 1631 Collection, Volume One — Daniel Porter (2025 [confirm])

A coin-by-coin catalog of more than 1,300 Grade One and Two specimens recovered from the galleon San José — the Almiranta of the 1631 South Seas Armada, lost off Panama carrying nine tons of silver in bars and 51 tons of coined silver.

It is a documented, photographed reference set for a single South Seas wreck — the kind of control group that lets a buyer authenticate a San José coin rather than take it on faith.

Specialists and collectors working with Panama-route or South Seas wreck material who need a documented comparison catalog.

Pieces of Eight: Recovering the Riches of a Lost Spanish Treasure Fleet — Kip Wagner (Reprint, 2014 (orig. 1960))

The firsthand account of the discovery and salvage of the 1715 Plate Fleet — the ten Spanish galleons wrecked on the Florida reefs — told by Kip Wagner, the Florida man who found the first coins on the beach and co-founded the Real Eight Corporation.

It is the origin story of 1715 Fleet treasure hunting, written by the man who started it. The salvage record, the early methods, and the human side of the hunt all come from here.

Anyone who owns or is considering a 1715 Fleet coin, and anyone who wants the human story behind the salvage.

The Practical Book of Cobs — Frank Sedwick & Daniel Frank Sedwick (4th ed., 2007)

The standard English-language handbook to Spanish colonial cob coinage — mint by mint, with the shield and cross types, assayer sequences, and how to read a struck-by-hand coin.

It is the book most dealers, salvors, and auction cataloguers reach for first when a cob needs attributing.

Anyone buying cobs at any level — this is the first book to own.

Cobs, Pieces of Eight and Treasure Coins — Sewall Menzel (American Numismatic Society [confirm edition/year])

A scholarly treatment of the early Spanish American mints and their coinage, published through the American Numismatic Society.

It goes deeper than a field guide into mint administration and the documentary record behind the coins.

Specialists working on attribution and mint history rather than quick identification.

The Macuquina Code — Agustín García-Barneche ([confirm edition/year])

A study of cob (macuquina) coinage focused on how the coins were actually struck and how the surviving detail should be read.

Useful when a coin's legends are partial and attribution has to come from style, layout, and die detail.

Collectors moving past the basics into attribution by die and style.

Numismática Española (Calicó) — Calicó [confirm edition and authorship] ([confirm edition/year])

The standard Spanish catalog of Spanish coinage, including the colonial series, with catalog numbers used across the European market.

Calicó numbers are the reference auction houses cite; without them you cannot follow a European sale record.

Specialists and anyone tracking Spanish and European auction results.

Spanish Colonial Silver Coins in the Florida Collection — Alan Craig ([confirm edition/year])

A catalog of Spanish colonial silver recovered from Florida waters and held in the state collection, documented coin by coin.

It ties specific coin types to specific Florida wreck material — the closest thing to a control group for 1715 Fleet silver.

Collectors buying Florida wreck coins who want a documented comparison set.