These coins are one of several hundred objects recovered from the wreck of the ZUYTDORP, a Dutch East India Company vessel wrecked off the Western Australian coast in 1712.
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Title: United Netherlands Stuivers minted in Zeeland
Date: 1711
Location: Frankfurt
Type: Coin
Significance: Associated with the wreck of the Dutch ship ZUYTDORP discovered on the Australian coast this silver coin is representative of European presence near the Australian continent in the 18th century.