Province Mint Unidentified
Soverign Issuer Carlos IV
Coin TypeCopper Coin
Country of OriginPortugal
Weight 4.38g
Composition Copper
Condition VP
Date Found 7/1/1979
Registration Number 18716
Catalogue Yr 560
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...