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Kristina Killgrove

Coins worth over $1 million recovered from 1715 Spanish treasure shipwrecks in Florida

Set of gold coins recovered from historic shipwreck.

Authorities have recovered 37 gold coins stolen from several 18th-century shipwrecks off the coast of Florida. The collection — part of a trove of over 100 coins initially discovered in 2015 — is valued at over $1 million.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC), salvage operators contracted to investigate Spanish shipwrecks near Vero Beach, reported half the historic coins they found and illegally withheld information about the other half.

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