Treasure hunter unearths silver coins from 300-year-old Spanish shipwreck on Florida beach. Max Chesnes. Treasure Coast. INDIAN RIVER SHORES, Fla.

Two treasure hunters discovered $6,000 worth of silver coins on a southern Florida beach that came from the wreckage of a fleet of Spanish ships that sunk there in 1715.. Jonah Martinez, a 43-year ...

Following Spain’s arrival to the Americas, the kingdom began minting copper Maravedis in the early 1500s specifically for distribution among its colonies. By the discovery’s minting in 1661, Spain was ...

Rare Spanish coins found in shipwreck. ... Thomson said his crew, whom he described as "treasure finders," has found more than 50 gold and silver coins in the wreckage during the past week.

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from the third and fourth centuries A.D.

Besides the aforementioned cobs that were already long in circulation, Spanish mints stepped up their production of well-struck round silver coins in numerous denominations, ranging from a ...

There's silver and gold in the water. Over the past week, the crew found more than 50 Spanish colonial coins. "We found gold for the first time in the last 10 or 15 years, and we also found a 1659 ...

A diver scavenging a wreck from a hurricane-sunk treasure fleet has achieved a childhood dream by finding stash of Spanish silver worth as much as £100,000. Grant Gitschlag, a 33-year-old salvage ...

Two military planes laden with 17 tons of silver and gold coins scooped up from a Spanish warship that sank during a 1804 gunbattle landed in Spain today, ending a 200-year odyssey that took the ...

Martinez pulled 22 Spanish silver coins from the surf, each dating back to a shipwreck 305 years ago, he said. ...

One coin alone could be worth upwards of $2,000. But while this isn't his biggest or most successful find (Martinez once found $6.5 million worth of gold coins), the thrill is still there, he said.