Posted on 10/03/2025 5:09:41 AM PDT by V_TWIN
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.
It's not the first time the site has yielded a trove of, well, treasure.
Centuries ago, a fleet of Spanish ships laden with gold, silver and jewels taken from the New World was sailing back to Spain when a hurricane wrecked the flotilla on July 31, 1715, spilling the treasures into the sea, according to the 1715 Fleet Society.
Over the years, millions of dollars in gold coins from the 1715 Fleet have been found by salvagers and treasure hunters in a coastal area stretching from Melbourne to Fort Pierce.
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Stock picture, maybe even that AI.
Gold does not tarnish or corrode, even in ocean salt water. Good stuff.
Those are AI coins, get used to fake
If someone would invent a stone detector to help people find Indian arrowheads, he’d make a lot of money.
“My mother-in-law used to live there!”
She buried in the sand too?
Nope, still going at 85 and living in south Georgia now!...........
According to the caption, those are some of the coins that they found .
Florida Shipwreck - This photo provided by shipwreck salvage company 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC shows Spanish coins the firm uncovered from a shipwreck off the Atlantic coast of Florida, 2025. (1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC via AP)
Thanks V_TWIN.
Finders keepers, losers weepers!...................
With gold trading at nearly $4K per ounce, a million dollars of gold coins is about enough to fill a lady’s purse at this point.
Fossils, too...
Could that be raw jade holding the gold from shifting?
I think I’ll read the article...
;)
I have friends up in Melbourne, was curious. Thanks.
Chinesium?
This find is “nothing”.
I was in Key West in 1987 when the Mel Fisher people were in the process of final inventory of the main initial Atocah treasure. They had a museum where they displayed a lot of their finds. There were gold and jewels in glass cases and stacks of silver ingots piled up all over the place.
Lots of armed guards, too.
Oh that’s damn funny!
I’ll be chuckling for days on that one :)
Thanks very much, I needed that.
“I found a lighter on the beach one time.”
On one of Les Stroud’s “Survivorman” episodes they drop him off in the middle of nowhere. He finds some place along the shore that looks like a good place to set up his camp (no supplies).
He found a lighter sitting on top of a rock. He swore that it wasn’t staged (and I’m positive it wasn’t). It didn’t have any fluid but he was able to use the spark to light some tinder.
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