Interesting and historical items.
This group concisits of two India, 10 cash coins and a copper nail from the ship.
Condition: Cleaned by the salvage company and one of the coins still has organic stone like growth from lying on the sea bed.
More informations :
The Admiral Gardner was sunk on the Goodwin Sands in the English Channel on the 25th January 1809. Part of its cargo consisted of coins to be used by the British East India Company. The majority of these coins were copper 10 cash that were struck at Soho Mint in Birmingham, England.
The copper from these coins came from the Rose Copper Co. in Cornwall. They were selected because their copper deposits contained significant amounts of silver consequently each of the cash coins contained some silver.
The arms of the East India Co. are on the obverse, above the date. The reverse bears a mughul inscription and an X denoting the denomination of ten cash. After half a century all trace of the ship had been lost and was just another entry in Lloyds register. Finally in 1985 the wreck was discovered and some of its treasure.
