After 30 Years, Mystery of 17th-Century Dutch Ship Carrying 400 Arabic Gold Coins Finally Solved

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A Dutch merchant ship carrying 400 gold and silver coins from Morocco sank off Devon in 1633 — and for 30 years, nobody knew which ship it was. Archival records just solved the mystery.

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