Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1920 — Spanish Coin of 1709 in Delaware Bay Fish [ARTICLE]

Spanish Coin of 1709 in Delaware Bay Fish

Cape May, N. J.—Frank W. Hughes of Cape May Point caught a nine-pound weakflsh In Delaware Bay. When he cleaned the fish Hughes found in it a Spanish coin dated 1709. It is supposed that this came from one of the Spanish ships of that time which was wrecked off the Delaware capes. Hughes was accompanied when he caught the fish by Horace Carson, who some time ago found a pearl valued at SSOO in a clam that he caught off the Fishing Creek clam beds.