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A ship named at last by its coins
Top Image: Gold coins recovered from a seventeenth-century Dutch shipwreck. The coins, bearing Arabic inscriptions, provide evidence of long-distance trade networks and global commerce during the early modern period. Source:CC0 1.0

A ship named at last by its coins

Salcombe, off Devon. 1633. Last 1,000 years. Known. Free

The coins did not name the ship by themselves.

Known. Old papers named the wreck as the Dom van Keulen.

The wreck lies near Salcombe, off Devon, on England's south coast. The ship sank in 1633. It was sailing from Morocco to the Netherlands when storms made it leak. The whole crew survived. More than 400 gold and silver coins were recovered, including gold coins with Arabic writing. The wreck was found in 1995. The coins helped show when the ship sailed and which trade it belonged to. A historian then found papers in the National Archives that matched this voyage.

The page does not say what is still argued.

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