2016-04-22 Fri

Technological advancement has helped archaeologists discover a rare silver coin called an 'Indio' while investigating a shipwreck off the coast of Oman.

Professor Mark Williams, Head of Product Evaluation and Technologies at WMG said that they have used world class scanning technology that is generally used to solve complex engineering problems and create new designs. With this innovative equipment they have managed to find what is generally called as the ‘lost’ or ‘ghost’ coin of Dom Manuel. Indio coin is considered as one of the rarest coins of the world and only one other example exists today at the National Historical Museum of Brazil. The scanner provides 16-micron resolution output which revealed the same coat of arms and legend as that of the MHN specimen.

Archaeologists have so far uncovered over 2,800 other artefacts from this wreck.