A group of treasure hunters said they recovered over 200 hundred silver coins from an 18th Century shipwreck off the coast of Florida, calling the moment "numbing." "You don't expect that. You always hope for it but you never expect it," boat captain Grant Gitschlag told WOFL-TV.
The coins in question come from a the Lilly May, a ship that was part of a fleet of Spanish galleons taking vast amounts of wealth from The Americas. A powerful hurricane destroyed 11 of the ships on July 1715, sending them to the ocean floor where they remained undiscovered for two centuries. The wreck had been surveyed many times before, making the recent discovery all the more notable.
