The Piece of Eight, a silver coin from the Spanish Empire, emerged as the world's first truly international currency, dominating global trade across continents. Minted from American silver, its purity ...

The report added that the treasure was recovered by 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels LLC, a company that has exclusive salvage rights to the 1715 Treasure Fleet shipwrecks. The coins, over 1000 silver reales ...

Two treasure hunters discovered $6,000 worth of silver coins on a southern Florida beach that came from the wreckage of a fleet of Spanish ships that sunk there in 1715. Jonah Martinez, a 43-year-old ...

SEBASTIAN, FL — More than 1,000 silver coins and five gold coins worth about $1 million were recovered from a 1715 Spanish shipwreck off the coast of Florida, a shipwreck salvage company said. On Sept ...

A team of excavators has uncovered a load of long-lost Spanish coins buried for centuries under the surf and sand along a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast.” This week, shipwreck salvage ...

There are a lot of treasure hunters up and down the coast. The crew of the Seahunter in Jupiter does not consider themselves one of them, but call themselves 'treasure finders' and say it's their ...

John and Rachel Burnham were each 24 years old when they moved to Brattleboro in 1815. They were a newly married couple from the Hartford, Connecticut, area and looked to establish themselves in the ...

The coins, known as pieces of eight, were minted in Spanish colonies of Mexico, Peru, and Bolivia. More than 1,000 silver coins and five gold coins, valued at around $1 million (Rs 8.87 Crore), have ...

Long before the US Dollar became the dominant currency of the modern world, there was another coin that ruled global trade, going across oceans and continents with quite an important influence. This ...