![]() ![]() ![]() The show revolves around John B.’s effort to find the gold, and, in turn, uncover out what happened to his missing father. Along with the fact that there were no known survivors from the wreck (minus Denmark Tanney, who the Pogues discovered actually did make it out alive), legend has it that there was also $400 million in British gold that sunk with the passengers. In the series, the Royal Merchant is a well-known historical artifact that everyone on the island is aware of - a ship that sunk sometime in the 1800s near the Outer Banks. So, is the Royal Merchant treasure on Outer Banks real? Viewers may expect the highly sought-after treasure to be a fictionalized detail created for the show, but it’s not as simple as that. ![]() But the most compelling aspect of the show remains the same as Season 1: The Royal Merchant. in bullion if so be the Infante Cardinal lose not upon it Flanders for want of money to pay the soldiers.Season 2 of Netflix’s Outer Banks basically has everything: Wild teens, complicated relationship dynamics, and a ton of unexpected plot twists. 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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