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<p>[QUOTE="larssten, post: 2589936, member: 78319"]Shipwreck Treasure coins! 8 real and two 4 real Spanish colonial cobs minted in Mexico probably 1720ies. The coins come from the Dutch merchant ship Akerendam which were on its way to Batavia (today's Jakarta, Indonesia). It was loaded with numerous chests of coins. During a storm in March 1725 it got lost in a storm and wrecked on the shore of Runde Island on the west coast of Norway. The wreck was discovered by sports divers in 1972 and 57 thousand coins were brought up including 10 thousand New World silver cobs (no gold) and almost 6 thousand gold ducats (mostly uncirculated 1724). 400 different varieties were found including 15 types that were unknown at the time</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161212/e2b9808a0eafe4cc314e1a0045a18f44.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="larssten, post: 2589936, member: 78319"]Shipwreck Treasure coins! 8 real and two 4 real Spanish colonial cobs minted in Mexico probably 1720ies. The coins come from the Dutch merchant ship Akerendam which were on its way to Batavia (today's Jakarta, Indonesia). It was loaded with numerous chests of coins. During a storm in March 1725 it got lost in a storm and wrecked on the shore of Runde Island on the west coast of Norway. The wreck was discovered by sports divers in 1972 and 57 thousand coins were brought up including 10 thousand New World silver cobs (no gold) and almost 6 thousand gold ducats (mostly uncirculated 1724). 400 different varieties were found including 15 types that were unknown at the time [IMG]http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20161212/e2b9808a0eafe4cc314e1a0045a18f44.png[/IMG] Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk[/QUOTE]
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