Hide under the turquoise water off an extension of Florida known as “Al -Kanz Coast”, a team of divers from the ship’s rescue company discovered exactly that – a load of The Spanish treasure has long been lost They value the value of $ 1 million.
More than 1,000 silver and gold currencies that are believed to have been promoted in the Spanish colonies in Bolivia, Mexico and Peru were discovered this summer off the Atlantic coast in Florida, 1715 cylinders – Queens Juventus LLC announced.
This is not the first time that the site has given a group of treasure.
For centuries, a fleet of Spanish ships was loaded with gold, silver and jewelry taken from the New World, sailing to Spain when the fleet was destroyed on July 31, 1715, which led to the spill of treasures to the sea, according to the Fleet Association 1715.
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This image, presented by Shipreck Salvage Companyy 1715 Fleet – CEARENS JEWELS, shows LLC Spanish coins revealed by the company from the wreckage of a ship off the Atlantic Coast in Florida, 2025. -
In this unknown image presented by Slvage Salvage Company 1715 Koinn Fleet, LLC, Gubin Levin Chaifrez shows the coins discovered from the wreckage of a Spanish ship off the Atlantic Coast in Florida, 2025.
Over the years, millions of dollars of gold coins from the 1715 fleet It is found Written by Salvages and Treasure Hunters in a coastal area that extends from Melbourne to Fort Pierce.
The rescue company said that the dates and mint marks are still visible on some of the recently recovered metal currencies, which are useful for historians and university hopes to get more lost treasure.
“This discovery is not only related to the treasure itself, but the stories he tells,” Salwoso, the rescue company’s operations manager, said in a statement. “Every coin is a piece of history, and it is a concrete link for the people who lived, worked, and sailed during the golden age of the Spanish Empire. The finding of 1,000 of them in the event of one recovery is rare and unusual.”
The Guttusus team uses diving sets and a fleet of boats and uses numbers for underwater metal detection, as well as sandy suction or sand to comb the sea bottom, according to a general notification of the application of a federal statement provided by the company.
Last year, Florida officials announced that they had recovered Dozens of gold currencies It was stolen by salvages from the debris. The suspect was identified as a family member of the team that was contracted by 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels LLC to work on the site.
Under the Florida Law, any “treasure” or other “abandoned” historical artifacts on the state -owned lands or in the state’s waters belong to the state, although the excavators can be allowed to implement “recovery services”. The law requires keeping about 20 % of the state’s archaeological materials for research or general presentation groups.
Gotoso told his Associated Press team to develop a detailed inventory of all the artifacts that are collected every season to be reviewed by the state. Florida officials choose up to 20 % of the elements that must be kept for the public, in the negotiation process that a federal court eventually approved. Gotoso said the remaining artifacts are divided equally between the owners of the rescue company and its subcontractors.
“We want to do it correctly,” said Gotoso.
“The people of Florida are useful. They end up in museums,” he said.