Description:

Mounted Mexico 1874 Silver 8 Reales 'Guanajuato Mint' with Chinese Chop Marks

    Dimensions:
  • 62x39mm
  • Exhibited:
  • World War I
  • Literature:
  • Military & Wartime
  • Medium:
  • 637
  • Circa:
  • Collectibles
  • Notes:
  • On the 9th of November 1914 the cruiser SMS Emden, the pride of the German Navy, was engaged and sunk by the HMAS Sydney off the Cocos Keeling Islands. The Emden had wreaked havoc on Allied shipping in the Indian Ocean and had relied on a cache of Mexican Silver Dollars to pay for its fuel and provisions at friendly ports. 6429 coins were salvaged from the wreck and the majority melted down but in 1918 the Navy commissioned Sydney Jeweller W. Kerr to mount a thousand of the coins to be presented to the surviving crew of the Sydney or their next of kin, with any remaining pieces to be sold to the public to defray manufacturing costs.

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June 21, 2020 12:00 PM AEST
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