Get our news delivered directly to your desktop-free
Who's Online
We have 10 guests online
USER STATISTICS
217 registered
1 today
4 this week
12 this month
Site Counters
Visits Today:
125
Visits Yesterday:
1357
Visits Month:
19331
Visits Total:
221781
Data since:
2008-11-13
534 Newsletter Subscribers
Team finds lost UK, Japan coins
January, 25 2010
This page is viewed 192 times
The Japan Times
A Japanese Turkish research team announced Monday the discovery of a British minted gold coin and a Japanese silver coin from a Turkish warship that sank 120 years ago off Kushimoto, Wakayama Prefecture
"Still there should be lots of gold coins" inside the ship Ertugrul, said Tufan Turanli, who heads the underwater archaeological team.
The gold coin, dated 1856, measures 2.2 cm in diameter and weighs 8 grams.
Ertugrul, a 76-meter wooden ship of the Ottoman Turks, sank in a typhoon in 1890 after the Turkish delegation on board delivered a message and decoration to Emperor Meiji.
Of the 650 crew members, 69 were rescued by local residents. The rescue has become a symbol of Japan-Turkey friendship.
The gold coin was retrieved at a depth of 12 meters.
The team, which launched a three-year survey in 2008, has already discovered about 5,800 items from the wreck.
