Soverign Issuer Unknown
Coin TypeDollar
Country of OriginUnited States of America
Date 1800
Weight 18.36g
Composition Silver
Condition P
Date Found 1979
Registration Number 18438
Catalogue Krause: 2828
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...