![]() ![]() This is what it looks like while merchants are active, if none are active it just shows the countdowns to their next appearance:Īlso for anyone not NA East, I may need some feedback (so NA West, EU West/Central, South America). I saw my guild at least was using a discord channel which seems like a nightmare to me.Īlso was a fun excuse to play with a newer front-end web framework. in bullion if so be the Infante Cardinal lose not upon it Flanders for want of money to pay the soldiers.So I've been toying with building this small tool in order to assist with organizing locations of the Wandering Merchants. The merchants of Antwerp will be the greatest losers, for she had in her belonging to them 300,000l. ![]() In the State Papers of King Charles I, it states ‘I suppose you have understood of the loss of the Royal Merchant coming into our road, which is the greatest that was ever sustained in one ship, being worth 400,000l. ![]() ![]() Conversely, if 100,000 pounds was the monetary value then it would be worth in the region of £35 million. The same again in jewels and whatever is meant by ‘ready bullion’ doubles that to somewhere approaching £5 billion. If the 100,000 pounds of gold was the weight and not the monetary value, then at late 2022 prices of around £1,500 per ounce, 100,000lb would be worth in the region of £2.4 billion. A contemporary pamphlet said the ship went down with ‘300000 in ready boliogne’ (bullion) and ‘100,000 pound in gold and as much value in jewels’. Sources have put the value of the sunken treasure as high as £20 billion and as low as £250 million. However, there’s no definitive account of her cargo at the time. The Spanish loot alone included silver bars, gold bullion and Spanish dollars. Whilst it is often called the “British gold ship” or “Land’s End gold ship”, the Royal Merchant’s cargo contained much besides. ![]()
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