US EditionExcavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’
Queens Jewels, LLC recovered over 1,000 silver Reales and five gold Escudos coins worth $1 million, preserving artifacts from the 1715 Spanish fleet shipwreck for public display.
- Over 1,000 silver coins and 5 gold coins worth about $1 million were recovered from a 1715 Spanish shipwreck off Florida's coast by 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels, LLC.
- The coins date back to a 1715 maritime disaster when 11 galleons were lost in a hurricane, with estimates of around $400 million in treasures lost in the storm.
- Sal Guttuso, director of operations for the salvage company, stated that each coin represents a piece of history, linking to the Golden Age of the Spanish Empire.
- The coins, which are important for historians and collectors, will be inspected and eventually displayed in local museums.
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Excavators find US$1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’
Hidden beneath the turquoise waters off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast,” a team of divers from a shipwreck salvage company have uncovered exactly that — a load of long-lost Spanish treasure they estimate is worth US$1 million.
Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ’Treasure Coast’
Hidden beneath the turquoise waters off a stretch of Florida known as the "Treasure Coast," a team of divers from a shipwreck salvage company have uncovered exactly that -- a load of long-lost Spanish treasure they estimate is worth $1 million.
Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s Treasure Coast
More than 1,000 silver and gold coins thought to be minted in the Spanish colonies of Bolivia, Mexico and Peru were uncovered this summer off Florida’s Atlantic coast.
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Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’
A team of excavators has found $1 million in treasure from a centuries-old Spanish shipwreck off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast.”.
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