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Treasure trove of silver and gold coins found on Florida shipwreck, salvager says

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Florida's "Treasure Coast" continues to prove its name fits, with wreck divers reporting the discovery of 1,051 silver coins and five gold coins on the seafloor. The 300-year-old coins were found over the summer on a shipwreck believed to have been part of the notorious 1715 Fleet, a group of about a dozen Spanish treasure ships that sank during a hurricane, historians say. Collectively, the pile of coins is estimated to be worth about $1 million, according to the salvage company Queens Jewels, LLC. "The coins, preserved beneath centuries of sand and sea, are part of the vast fortune carried by the fleet, which ... (full story)

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