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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Found in Florida Spanish galleon coins valued at USD 1 million – RPP News

Tuesday, July 28, 2015 | 8:37 a.m.

A resident of Sanford family, North Florida (USA), recovered from the seabed, using a metal detector, 52 gold coins worth more than a million dollars from an eighteenth century Spanish galleon, it reported local media.

Eric Schmitt and his family recovered to 4.5 meters deep off the coast of Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County (southeast of Florida), 52 gold coins that were part of any of the eleven galleons of the Spanish fleet that wrecked the July 31, 1715 in that area because of a hurricane.

One of the gold coins is a rare piece not intended to move and is valued according to Schmitt, at $ 500,000, the Orlando Sentinel said.

The company co-founder 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels, Brent bisben, owner of the rights to the wreck where coins were found, said it is amazing the good condition of the pieces.

“The coins are in almost perfect condition. It’s very rare, “said bisben, who said that” there are only six coins like this. “

Not the first time the Schmitt family finds parts of these shipwrecks. In 2014 they recovered a valuable gold reliquary that was part of the Spanish treasure fleet said.

And in 2013 recovered a gold chain about 15 meters long and numerous gold coins valued at $ 500,000.

The gold locket was conducted between late seventeenth and early eighteenth century and was used to transport and store the sacred way.

The Spanish fleet in 1715 sailed from Havana toward Spain full of gold to the Crown, but eleven ships were sunk off the coast of Florida, due to a hurricane that life a thousand people dead.

One of the gold, silver and other objects scattered across the ocean floor were recovered after the storm, but historians and “treasure hunters” believe that millions of dollars in silver and gold still in the bottom of the sea.

20% Treasure recovered by State legislation, it must be exposed in museums; the rest is divided between the company and the Schmitts Brisben, said the newspaper.

EFE