Three-Decade Mystery Of 17th-Century Shipwreck Dom van Keulen With 400 Gold Coins Finally Solved

Three-Decade Mystery Of 17th-Century Shipwreck Dom van Keulen With 400 Gold Coins Finally Solved

Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A centuries-old shipwreck discovered off the south coast of England, containing 400 gold coins, has been identified as the Dutch trading ship “Dom van Keulen,” which departed Morocco for the Netherlands in autumn 1633. Credit: British Museum A new publication identifies the wreck that a team from the British Museum, []

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Dutch shipwreck carrying 9,000 Moroccan gold coins finally identified, three decades after discovery

An international research team has identified a Dutch merchant ship that sank off the southwest coast of England in 1633 while carrying thousands of Moroccan gold coins, solving a three-decade-old mystery that began when divers pulled more than 400 coins from the seabed in 1995, according to Bournemouth University. The vessel is the “Dom van [] The post Dutch shipwreck carrying 9,000 Moroccan gold coins finally identified, three decades after discovery appeared first on HESPRESS English - Morocco News.

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In the 19th century small business folk traded gold and money. And then the banks took over.

One Spring Monday in 1852 around thirty gold buyers gathered for the evening at Mrs Black’s Royal Hotel in Bathurst, which was (and is) just on the other side of the Blue Mountains from Sydney. Probably not ordinarily the most collegiate of petty capitalists, the gold buyers gathered to debate the role of the local []