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Planes laden with shipwreck treasure land in Spain

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Two military planes laden with 17 tons of silver and gold coins scooped up from a Spanish warship that sank during a 1804 gunbattle landed in Spain on Saturday, ending a 200-year odyssey that took the treasure from an ocean floor to Florida courtrooms.

 

$230M in silver found in WW2 shipwreck off Ireland

$230M in silver found in WW2 shipwreck off Ireland

U.S. treasure hunters have found a 1941 shipwreck containing an estimated $230 million in silver, the largest cache of precious-metal booty ever, ...

 

Divers Set Sights on Sunken WWII Ship Laden With Silver

The S.S. Gairsoppa, a British merchant vessel heading to England from India, went down in the Atlantic after it was hit by a Nazi torpedo in 1941.

 

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