Mitch Stacy
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/ 18 May 2007

Secret shipwreck yields ‘unprecedented’ riches

Deep-sea explorers said on Friday they have salvaged what could be the richest shipwreck treasure in history, bringing home 17 tonnes of 400-year-old silver and gold coins from an undisclosed site in the Atlantic Ocean with an estimated value of -million. ”For this colonial era, I think [the find] is unprecedented,” said a rare-coin expert.