Shipwreck treasure: Trans-Atlantic voyage near end
February 24, 2012 at 3:34 am in The Dickinson Press
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) A 17-ton trove of silver coins recovered from a Spanish galleon sunk by British warships on a voyage home from South America in 1804 was set to be flown Friday from the U.S. to Spain, concluding a nearly five-year legal struggle with the Florida deep-sea explorers who found and recovered it.
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