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Eight Real coin of Mexico, excavated from the wreck site of the VERGULDE DRAECK
c 1620
Australian National Maritime Museum
Sydney, Australia
This 1621 Thaler coin is one of several hundred objects recovered from the wreck of the VERGULDE DRAECK, a Dutch East India Company vessel wrecked off the Western Australian coast in 1656.
Details
- Title: Eight Real coin of Mexico, excavated from the wreck site of the VERGULDE DRAECK
- Date: c 1620
- Type: Coin
- Significance: Associated with the Dutch shipwreck VERGULDE DRAECK discovered on the Australian coast this silver coin is representative of European presence near the Australian continent in the 17th century.
- See institution's online collections: http://www.anmm.gov.au/collections
- Medium: Silver
- Dimensions: 35 x 39 x 3 mm, 26 g
- Credit line: ANMM Collection Transferred from Australian Netherlands Committee on Old Dutch Shipwrecks
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