Write for us
We publish contributed and sponsored articles from collectors, divers, researchers, and writers who know Spanish treasure coins and the history around them. Here is what we look for.
What we publish
Clear, sourced writing on Spanish colonial coins and the world they came from: denominations and mints, identification and grading, shipwreck salvage, the treasure fleets, and Florida's Treasure Coast. The best pitches teach a reader something specific and back every claim with a source. A good contributed piece reads like the rest of the site: plain, accurate, and honest about what is known and what is not.
Who should pitch
Collectors and dealers with real knowledge, divers and salvors with first-hand experience, historians and numismatists, and freelance writers who can handle the subject for a general reader. You do not need a long list of credits. You do need to know the material and to write cleanly. If you have handled the coins or worked the wrecks, tell us, because first-hand knowledge strengthens a piece.
How to pitch
Email editor@chihulycollectionstpete.com with a short outline: the working title, the angle in two or three sentences, the sources you will draw on, and a link to something you have written before if you have one. For a sponsored or contributed post, say so up front and name any business you represent. We reply to pitches we want to run, and we edit for accuracy and house style before publishing.
What we do not accept
We turn down thinly veiled advertising, unsourced claims, invented provenance, and anything that would mislead a buyer or a finder. Sponsored and contributed articles are labelled clearly and held to the same accuracy standard as our own work, so a piece that cannot support its claims will not run, paid or not. We do not sell coins, and we will not publish content that pretends the site does, or that misrepresents an affiliation we do not have.