Mint Mark FM
Province Mint Mexico
Soverign Issuer Carlos IV
Coin Type8 Reales
Country of OriginSpanish America
Date c.1799
Weight 17.03g
Composition Silver
Condition P
Date Found 1979
Registration Number 18421
Catalogue Yr 679
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...