Following Spain’s arrival to the Americas, the kingdom began minting copper Maravedis in the early 1500s specifically for distribution among its colonies. By the discovery’s minting in 1661, Spain was ...

Blanchard and Co. is one of two dealers offering the coins from an area where 11 treasure-laden ships of a Spanish fleet were smashed onto reefs by a hurricane on July 31, 1715. The other dealer ...

We found 22 beautiful Spanish coins from the 1715 Treasure Ship Wreck that were all hammer-struck.' The coins are worth $5,000 to $6,000 today. 'You can lick it and taste the salt water,' Smith said.

One coin alone could be worth upward of $2,000. Though this isn't his biggest or most successful find (Martinez once found $6.5 million worth of gold coins), the thrill is still there, he said.

The recent discovery of two ancient Spanish coins near Halls Crossing excited archaeologists at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, who wondered whether they offered evidence that Spanish ...

Some of the gold coins treasure-hunters recovered from the wreck of a Spanish cargo ship that sank off the Florida coast in 1715. Photograph by 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC 300-Year-Old Spanish ...