Province Mint Boo Yon Yun Mint (Yunnan)
Coin TypeCash
Country of OriginChina
Date 1796-1820
Weight 2.78g
Composition Brass
Condition G eroded
Date Found 16/5/1980
Registration Number 18714
Catalogue C.R.Husch ? De Vries 72
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...