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, 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels LLC announced this week. Centuries ago, the fortune was being ferried back to Spain when a hurricane wre...

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