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English East India Co., 10 Cash, 1808 AD
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| Title | English East India Co., 10 Cash, 1808 AD |
| Obverse | East India Co. Coat of Arms |
| Reverse | Persian Inscription |
| Type/denomination | Copper 10 Cash |
| Diameter | 25.4 millimeters |
| Weight | 4.48 grams |
| Origin | English East India Company Merchant Money |
| Period | 1808 AD |
| Description | This coin was salvaged from the Admiral Gardner shipwreck in 1985. The ship went down with its cargo of anchors, cannonballs, copper ingots, iron bars, and a shipment of new copper coins minted by the East India Company. It was anchored offshore to ride out a terrible storm, but was blown onto the deadly "Goodwin Sands" sandbar. The ship had just left port bound for India, filled with supplies for the East India Company's overseas operations. The ship was launched in 1797, wrecked in January 25, 1809, and the coins were recovered almost two centuries later, in 1985.
One side of these coins bears the Coat of Arms awarded to the East India Company by the English Crown, in 1698. The reverse contains a Persian inscription giving the coins' values in the diplomatic language of Mughal, India - "X or 10 Cash" - an equivalent of 3/4 farthing in 1808. That made them acceptable by the local laborers as their medium of exchange. |
| Publisher | Hillsdale College |
| Donor | Alwin C. Carus |
| Collection | World |
| Accession number | 20050092 |
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