The Nation - News from July 28, 1985
Divers hauling up a king’s ransom from a sunken Spanish galleon off the coast of Florida have found four chests filled with silver coins. Treasure hunter Mel Fisher called the new find “absolutely magnificent.” The chests are part of an estimated $400 million in treasure entombed for 3 1/2 centuries aboard the Nuestra Senora de Atocha, which sank in a 1622 hurricane.
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