Coins: Real of 8 - 1779. (Total wt 0.75 kg) Mint 6x Mexico 1x Potosi 1x Guatemala 2 unknown
Site Area Code North West
Site Location RAPID
Number of Items 10
Material Silver
Registration Number 2050
ID 13027
Status Commonwealth
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...