US EditionDivers Recover More Than 1,000 Coins Worth $1 Million From 1715 Florida Shipwreck
Queens Jewels, LLC recovered over 1,000 silver and gold coins from the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwreck, valued at $1 million, with many coins bearing visible dates and mint marks.
- 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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Off the coast of Florida, in an area known as the "Treasure Coast," divers from the salvage company 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels LLC recovered more than a thousand silver and gold coins from a centuries-old Spanish shipwreck this summer. The find, estimated at $1 million, was made in the Atlantic Ocean between Melbourne and Fort Pierce.
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Hidden beneath the turquoise waters of a stretch of Florida known as the "Treasure Coast," a team of divers from a shipwreck recovery company has discovered just that: an ancient Spanish treasure worth…
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.
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