COLOMBIA ASSERTS ITS CLAIM TO TREASURE

Move over Mel Fisher and Davy Jones. Here we go again with a world-class fight over who owns the rights to the “gold doubloons and pieces of eight” that have been located on a fabled shipwreck. This legal battle pits treasure hunters including the government of Colombia, Spain, Bolivian Indigenous groups and a U.S. salvage company. The rights to the sunken treasure are almost as murky as the water in which it is submerged since the location of the shipwreck has been kept secret. It is certain it is situated somewhere in the Caribbean Sea. At stake is the future of a shipwreck that has been dubbed the “holy grail” of such wrecks by experts. The Spanish galleon San José was a 64-gun, three-masted warship that was part of the Spanish Armada…

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World Coin News (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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