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 ...

The largest collection of Roman coins found in Spain is now on exhibit. The museum display features 50,000 ancient coins from ...

Centuries-old coins, believed to be part of a $17 billion treasure trove on the shipwreck of the Spanish galleon ship San ...

A woman found a 344-year-old Spanish coin in Marion County. They enjoy metal detecting, but the coin was found lying on the ground.

Archaeology & History Wreck of Legendary Spanish Galleon With $17 Billion Cargo Confirmed by Coin Evidence The holy grail of shipwrecks is believed to have been sunk by the British navy in 1708.

The prized haul is believed to include emerald, gold, and silver worth as much as $20 billion.

Considered the Holy Grail of all shipwrecks, the Spanish galleon San Jose blew up and sank in 1708 at the hands of British cannons, and it took with it what experts have estimated to be $17 billion in ...

More than 300 years after the Spanish galleon San José sank off the coast of Colombia in 1708, a cluster of glittering gold ...