Mint Mark FM
Province Mint Mexico
Soverign Issuer Carlos IV
Coin Type8 Reales
Country of OriginSpanish America
Date 1797
Weight 24.75g
Composition Silver
Condition VG
Date Found 1979
Registration Number 17961
Catalogue Yr 677
An American China trader wrecked at Ningaloo reef in 1811. The first example of an outwardbound American China trader to be examined from the archaeological perspective. Reported in the Columbian Sentinel dated 3 August 1811 to have had
$280 000 in specie on its outward journey from Boston.
Rapid departed Boston for Canton on 28 September 1810. After rounding the
Cape of...