Cog or Carrack? [solved]

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Dear fellow collectors,
I was about to enter my Isle of Man coins to "My Coins" and I had another glance at KM#47 (a three-masted English cog) and KM#48 (a single-masted Flemish carrack in front of the castle).
I guess KM in this case has mixed up the pictures (or the numbers) belonging to these two coins.
I don't know much about ships, so I looked it up. And I found that carracks are three-masted ships and cogs (their precursor) had less masts. Most of the time only one.
Let me know what you think.

KM# 48: KM# 47:


RM
Quote: "Gimme Some Money!"​​I guess KM in this case has mixed up the pictures (or the numbers) belonging to these two coins.​

​Congratulations, well-done observation. But I'm afraid it's not KM who mixed up the pictures, but we did in our catalogue. The descriptions on the coin pages are perfect, but the pictures of KM# 47 and KM# 48 are exchanged.


And here you can see some pictures of Castle Rushen (https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Castle+Rushen%22&lr=&as_qdr=all&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiDsInRm4HWAhWPfFAKHZXhDtEQsAQIQg&biw=1920&bih=947) so in Krause the description is for the right picture, in our catalog it isn't.
The referee of Isle of Man is a very regular reader of the forum, so he will fix this after reading this post. Otherwise you can send him a message.
Great observation! I will get this taken care of.
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