Tour Scotland Video Iron Treasure Chest Museum Edinburgh

Tour Scotland video of an iron treasure chest in the National Museum on visit to Edinburgh, Scotland. The lid of the this money chest has an elaborate lock covering the whole inner surface. The chest contained money for the colonization project that became known as the Darien Scheme or Darien Disaster which was an unsuccessful attempt by the Kingdom of Scotland to become a world trading nation by establishing a colony called Caledonia on the Isthmus of Panama in the late 1690s.

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