Triangular 1oz Fine Silver 999 2021 Australia Shipwreck Series.

Limited Mintage of 20,000!

2021 Australia Shipwreck Series coin.

The Zeewijk departed the Netherlands for Batavia in 1726.
The ship carried ten chests with a total of more than 315,000 guilders and a crew of 208 men. 28 of them died before the ship reached the Cape of Good Hope.

In 1727, the ship met its demise on a reef off the coast of Western Australia. 11 survivors left in a longboat to seek help in Batavia never to be seen again. The other survivors salvaged what was left of the original ship and built the Sloepie, the first ship ever built in Australia by Europeans 82 men finally reached Batavia four weeks after leaving Australia.

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