Plademonter Fra Schimmelmannvraget.  Plate Money from the "Schimmelmann" Wreck Recovered at the Cape Verde Islands. Thomas Holland Montauktion 12 Juni 2004 Softcover. Very Good Quarto 108 pp Auction catalogue of some of the Plate Money from the "Schimmelmann" Wreck. A few pages regarding history in English. 

"A Danish East Indiaman of 1400 tons commanded by a nobleman of the same name. the ship was bound from Copehagen to China with a valuable cargo of cannon and Swedish coin. She was then one of the largest ships in the world. She hit a reef off the North coast of Maio on April 24 1781, the crew being saved. Many of the ships timbers were used in the construction of th new church at Porto Ingles on Maio.


An auction of part of the Swedish copper coins (approx. 25% of the over 800 coins recovered, of which half remain in Cape Verde for public display, with Thomas Hoiland of Copenhagen, ended with an excellent result of over €100,000. This was twice as much as expected, mainly due to the interest of Danish collectors in their own maritime history - well reflected by this beautiful and unique coins. The coin was recovered in 1999, north of Maio from the Danish " Grev Ernst Schimmelmann " wreck of 1780. The auction took place at the Danish National Maritime Museum in Kronborg Castle (also known as Helsingor castle in Shakespeare`s Hamlet), a UNESCO World Heritage Site." CapeVerdeinfo




The shipwreck codenamed MAI-010n the north coast of Maio Island, Republic of Cape Verde, on 12 August 1999 during a visual survey of the area. It was tentatively identified as a Danish East Indiaman sunk in 1780-1781, named “Grev Ernst Schimmelmann” which was under the command of Captain Hans Reimert Reiersen. The archaeological excavation of this wreck provided a very rare collection of Swedish copper plate money which allowed for the study of some of the numismatic aspects of that particular currency. The evidence confirms that the “Schimmelmann” was carrying Swedish copper plate money, a cargo of iron cannons and at least two boxes of small bronze signaling guns