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There was also a "cunyie house" or Mint in Dundee (Letters, January 30). During a brief period of office relocation, cunyie officers from Edinburgh moved to Dundee to escape the 1585 plague, before relocating to Perth. The Scottish Mint relocated again to Dundee, for security reasons, in 1651 along with many rich refugees; indeed, the first Duchess of Buccleuch was born that year in Dundee when her dad was preparing the cunyie house for a bit of "quantitative easing".
Sadly, Cromwell's forces under General Monk laid siege to the city following the Battle of Dunbar, tricking their way past drunken guards during an unhappy happy hour. But 60 of Monk's ships then foundered on a sandbank in the Tay, taking his loot to the bottom of the river.See the full content of this document
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Treasure Waiting to Be Recovered From the Sea
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