Sujet

Silver coins and gold doble excelente of Ferdinand and Isabella, Spanish, c1479-1504. UPSIDE DOWN Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Silver coins and gold doble excelente of Ferdinand and Isabella, Spanish, c1479-1504. Coins from the wreck of the 'Ann Francis', a chance find on Margam Beach in Wales, in 1989. On 28 December 1583, the Ann Francis, belonging to the King's Lynn merchant Francis Shaxton, ran aground on Margam Beach. She was promptly plundered by the local inhabitants. The money was probably the proceeds of selling a cargo of grain in Spain and/or Portugal. The silver coins, of types that were by now obsolete, acted simply as silver bullion, which in normal circumstances would have been taken to the Mint in London to be converted into coin of the British realm. The ship lost its way on the return leg of the voyage and the silver never made it to London.

Date

1479

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/©National Museum of Wales

Notre référence

HRM26A27_231

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

30.0Mo (1.3Mo) / 32.4cm x 23.2cm / 3828 x 2743 (300dpi)

Mots clés

country Spain Spanish metal money finance currency coin coins British color silver medieval gold location century shipwreck coinage Britain bullion real gold coin Colour numismatics reales mediaeval Middle Ages gold coins 15th century ducat fifteenth century object Unknown Ferdinand the Catholic Queen Isabella I Isabella I Castile Isabella of Castile King Ferdinand II Ferdinand II doubloon National Museum of Wales king of Aragon Isabella of numismatology silver coin Queen of Spain Ferdinand V of Castile Catolica Isabel la doble excelente double-ducat King Ferdinand the Catholic Isabella "The Catholic" of C