


2025 Silver Britannia SS Tilawa Shipwreck Silver Privy Coin
As requested by u/BlazeBullionBotique
The SS Tilawa Britannia privy coin. Also a photo of the silver being salvaged.
SS Tilawa Shipwreck Silver refers to a historic haul of roughly 60 tonnes of .999 fine silver bullion (2,364 bars) recovered from the floor of the Indian Ocean.
Dubbed the "Indian Titanic," the British-Indian passenger liner SS Tilawa was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine on 23 November 1942.
At the time of its sinking, the ship was transporting the silver from Bombay to the South African Mint for coinage production.
In 2017, salvage operators secretly recovered the bullion from a depth of 1.6 miles (2.5 km) underwater. Following a high-profile UK Supreme Court battle with South Africa over sovereign rights, the silver was finally settled and released for the commercial market.