The Age of Exploration…Simply to utter the phrase is to summon images of majestic ships in full sail, laden with riches and captained by brave souls, ever-alert for signs of plundering pirates.. De munt waar het hier om draait is een origineel zilveren 8 Realen stuk opgedoken uit het wrak van de "El Cazador". Deze munten werden gezien als de grondlegger van de huidige Amerikaanse Dollar. Every coin tells a story…but perhaps no coin in history tells a more riveting tale than the coins of "El Cazador": “the shipwreck that changed the world".

These are the forces that shaped the New World during the Era of Discovery. But historians agree that perhaps the greatest infl uence of all did not come sailing over the waves. Instead, it was a ship lost to the briny deep that paved the way for the growth of our own fl edgling nation. That ship was the El Cazador, “The Hunter,” a Spanish Brig of War loaded with a vast treasury of freshly-minted silver and bound for the New World. We may never know what mysterious force sank her. But it is certain that her lost treasure holds the key to the birth of the nation we know today.