Judge: Odyssey Should Give Coin Treasure to Spain

by CoinNews on June 9, 2009

in Coin Treasures, CoinNews, Gold Coins, Odyssey Marine Exploration, Shipwreck Coins, World Coins

Deep seas, adventure, mystery, suspense and a battle over who owns a sunken treasure… they are the trappings of an action-adventure blockbuster that could make hundreds of millions. But this is no movie plot. The treasure is real — possibly worth some $500 million — and a battle over its ownership wages on, but now at another level.

500 million Colonial-era gold and silver coins belonged to the sunken Spanish warship Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes and should be returned to Spain, a U.S. judge said...

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