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• The E-Sylum: Volume 10, Number 9, March 4, 2007, Article 17
  

  HISTORIAN CITES COPPER COIN AS BLACKBEARD'S BOOTY
  

  According to a report in the March 2, News & Observer of North Carolina,
  a small copper coin found on a shipwreck is key evidence linking the
  wreck to Blackbeard the pirate.
  

  "Ten years of research has led to the "inescapable conclusion" that
  a shipwreck near Beaufort is the pirate Blackbeard's flagship, a
  state historian said today.
  

  "Lindley Butler, historian for the Queen Anne's Revenge project, said
  the size of the sunken ship, the number of guns it carried and the
  artifacts recovered from the site strengthen the connection to the
  pirate. Historical records indicate that the pirate sank the Queen
  Anne's Revenge off the North Carolina coast in 1718.
  

  "State officials reviewed the research during a conference today at
  the N.C. Museum of History. Butler said a coin weight recovered last
  October was particularly compelling evidence. The small copper disc,
  an item used to determine the weight of coins and gold, bears a
  likeness of Britain's Queen Anne, who reigned in 1702-1714.
  

  "'This is the most exciting artifact to me,' Butler told the audience
  of about three dozen people.
  

  "'You can't get any better than putting Queen Anne on the
  Queen Anne's Revenge.'"
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v10n09a17.html

Data de publicação

• 2007-03-04

Volume

• 10

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