This is the Antiqued Finish of which only 1000 were Minted. The Zeewijk in a new sub-series for the Australia Shipwreck. These coins are the first ever antiqued bullion coins from The Royal Australian Mint and is strictly limited to a low mintage of 1,000! A Mint First – first time an antique finish has been applied on a RAM bullion program. Fourth release in the four coin antiqued series. Limited mintage of just 1,000 coins worldwide. Fourth triangular-shaped bullion coin in the world. Presented in unique protective triangular capsule. The Zeewijk left the Netherlands in 1726 for Batavia with 208 seamen and a rich cargo of more than 315,000 guilders in ten chests. Having lost 28 men by the time it reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1727, further disaster soon struck when the Zeewijk hit reef off the Western Australian coast. Managing to set up camp on a nearby island and saving the chests of guilders, 11 of the survivors later launched the longboat to raise the alarm in Batavia. Tragically, these men were never seen again. Meanwhile, the remaining crew salvaged material from the Zeewijk’s wreck and ingeniously built another boat, named’Sloepie,’ reinforced with local mangrove timber. More than ten months after being shipwrecked, the men and chests of guilders set sail in Sloepie. After just four weeks, 82 survivors victoriously landed at Batavia in their makeshift boat. The Zeewijk was the last Dutch East Indiaman to be wrecked off the Western Australian coast and Sloepie was the first boat built by Europeans in Australia. This is a stock photo. Your coin will be BU and of the same condition. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Bullion\Silver\Coins”. The seller is “cointrader777″ and is located in this country: US. This item can be shipped to United States.
- Coin: Austrailian Shipwreck
- Certification: Uncertified
- Precious Metal Content per Unit: 1 oz
- Strike Type: Business
- Grade: Ungraded
- Year: 2021
- Brand/Mint: The Perth Mint
- Composition: Silver