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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;LakeEffect, post: 8262097, member: 43201&quot;]That Admiral Gardner coin is cool, if it&#039;s a legit claim.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>On 24 January 1809, Captain Eastfield sailed from the Downs, bound for Madras and Bengal, at the start of Admiral Gardner&#039;s sixth voyage for the East India Co. The next day Admiral Gardner was lost on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin_Sands" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin_Sands" rel="nofollow">Goodwin Sands</a> off South Foreland when a gale tore her from her moorings. Three (or five) crew drowned.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Lost with Admiral Gardner was her cargo, a large number of EIC X and XX copper cash coins, belonging to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Boulton" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Boulton" rel="nofollow">Matthew Boulton</a>. The EIC put the value of its cargo at £21,579.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Gardner_(1797_EIC_ship)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Gardner_(1797_EIC_ship)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Admiral_Gardner_(1797_EIC_ship)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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