Hollandia, sunk in 1743 off the Scilly Isles, southwest of England
Blown off course on her
way to the East Indies,
the Hollandia
struck Gunner Rock and
sank in about 110 feet
of water about 1˝ miles
east of it on July 13,
1743. There were no
survivors.
The first sign of the
wreck came in 1971, when
divers under Rex Cowan
located the wrecksite
and within a couple
years salvaged over
35,000 silver coins
among the nearly 130,000
guilders (dollar-sized
units) recorded to be on
board the Hollandia.
A great majority of the
coins were Mexican
“pillar dollars,” but
there were also some
silver cobs, including
the scarce Mexican
transitional “klippes”
of 1733-1734 and a few
Guatemala cobs, in mixed
condition.
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