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Gold coins from a 1715 Spanish wreck are still washing onto Florida’s beaches

Florida authorities recovered 37 gold coins stolen from a nearly 310-year-old shipwreck off the state’s Atlantic coast, a case that highlights the persistent tension between treasure hunters, ...

What are these 1,000 gold and silver coins doing off a Spanish wreck that sank 300 years ago?

It could almost sound like the plot of an adventure movie. But this time, it is real. A team of divers from a shipwreck salvage company called 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels LLC told the Associated Press ...
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A hiker discovered two coins in the Utah desert — including one that appears to have been minted in Spain 200 years before Columbus set sail for the New World

If Christopher Columbus discovered the New World in 1492, then how did a Spanish coin minted 200 years before that end up in Utah? That's the question National Park Service officials are trying to ...
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A hurricane sank a Spanish fleet in 1715. This summer, salvagers found $1M in coins

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by shipwreck salvage company 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC shows Spanish coins the firm uncovered from a ...
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Rare Spanish coins found in shipwreck

JUPITER, Fla., June 29 (UPI) -- A team of Florida "treasure finders" said they found more than 50 Spanish colonial coins in the wreckage of a 17th century ship. The Jupiter-based crew of the Seahunter ...
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17th century Spanish coin found in ‘Diamond Don’s RV Park’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Copper Maravedis coins were minted specifically for circulation in Spain's American colonies. "We were sitting outside the trailer ...
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Rare 15th Century Spanish Coins Going Up for Auction

Rare Spanish coins dating back to the ancient world will be going on the auction block. Sotheby's announced Thursday that it is selling 37,895 of the rare coins on behalf of the New York City-based ...
Fox News

Spanish gold coins worth $1M from 1715 shipwreck go on the market

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A New Orleans investment firm has begun marketing gold coins from a 300-year-old shipwreck discovered off Florida's coast. Blanchard and Co. is one of two dealers offering the coins ...
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A Spanish Coin Worth $500,000 Was Just Found In a Florida Shipwreck

If you’ve ever seen a guy waving a metal detector around on an empty beach and immediately judged him as a crazy Illuminati-fearing moon-landing-denier, know this: There’s still plenty of treasure to ...
Los Angeles Times

Excavators find $1 million in gold coins from Spanish shipwreck along Florida’s ‘Treasure Coast’

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Hidden beneath the turquoise waters off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast,” a team of divers from ...
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Centuries-old Spanish coins found off the Treasure Coast

THE REST OF YOUR FORECAST COMING UP. EVER WONDER WHY THE TREASURE COAST IS CALLED THE TREASURE COAST? A BIG DISCOVERY OFF FLORIDA’S TREASURE COAST. DIVERS SAY THEY HAVE RECOVERED MORE THAN A THOUSAND ...