It's surprising to me for a legal tender coin to depict a sinking ship but considering that these were minted as primarily for visiting vacationers and the foreign buyers/collectors why not advertise one of their big tourist attractions.
One of the things I have wondered that if the Vikings had established a successful trade relations with the North American Indians how would the world be different that what it is today. I'd be speaking some Scandinavian language by now.
!BBH
No one knows how long they stayed before they abandoned their settlements. Maybe they didn't get along with the Natives and that precipitated to abandonment? The funny thing is they keep finding older and older dates of humans in the Americas, our species has always innovated and probably arrived here way before the archeologist have found so far.
!BBH