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The cargo of the Admiral Gardner

Photograph of East India Company copper coinage 1808

Photograph © Andrea Cordani 1998 All rights reserved

The reason the Admiral Gardner was such a great loss was that she was carrying a valuable cargo:  54 tons of specially minted copper coinage, destined for the East India Company's Mint at Madras.

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