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# There is a European maritime tradition of leaving money inside the hull of a ship
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/est-takaia-evropeiskaia-morskaia-traditsiia-ostavliat-vnutri-korabelnogo-fiuzeliazha-dengi/
- Published: 2018-04-21T07:33:25.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:44:39.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Archaeology, Mores, Ethnography

There is a European maritime tradition of leaving money inside the hull of a ship. Underwater archaeologists often find coins embedded in the remains of sunken vessels. Do you know why coins are set into a ship's frame? So that, should the vessel be wrecked, the drowned sailors could pay their fare for the crossing to the other world