Divers searching Spanish shipwrecks off Florida’s “Treasure Coast” turned up more than 1,000 silver coins and five gold coins from a fleet that sank in 1715.
Queens Jewels LLC owns the exclusive rights to salvage the wrecks of a Spanish fleet that sank off Florida on July 31, 1715, sending gold, silver and jewels worth as much as $400 million in current value to the ocean floor. On Tuesday, the company announced the results of a recent find.
The term Treasure Coast refers to a stretch of southeastern Florida’s Atlantic coastline north of Miami consisting of Indian River County, St. Lucie County and Martin County. The name stems from the wreck of the 1715 treasure fleet, according to Indian River Magazine…