Florida authorities recovered a collection of gold coins from an 18th-century Spanish convoy that was stolen in 2015. The 37 gold coins were snatched from the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet and have a ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – A New Orleans investment firm has begun marketing gold coins from a 300-year-old shipwreck discovered off Florida's coast. Blanchard and Co. is one of two dealers offering the coins ...

TIFFANY: CAROLINE COLES SHOWS SOME HISTORY THROUGH HIS DISCOVERIES. CAROLINE: FOUND BURIED BENEATH THE TREASURE COAST ARE 2 SPANISH COINS. THESE RUSTED BUT VERY HISTORIC COINS DATE ALL THE WAY BACK TO ...

VERO BEACH, Fla. — More than 300 years ago, violent storms sank a fleet of 18th century Spanish ships. It scattered hundreds of gold coins along the Florida coastline. And now, treasure hunters have ...

Spanish treasure that predates the arrival of Columbus by 200 years has been found in a US national park. The two coins, one minted in Madrid in 1660 and the other made around the 1200s, were found ...

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Rare Spanish coins dating back to the ancient world will be going on the auction block. Sotheby's announced Thursday that it is selling 37,895 of the rare coins on behalf of the New York City-based ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have been left scratching their heads over Spanish treasure that appears to have travelled through time. A tourist strolling through a US national park found two coins that predate the ...

Sometime around 660 CE, silver coinage replaced gold as the dominant form of currency in northwest Europe. But what was the source of all that silver? According to a recent paper published in the ...

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