slowly but surely Posted May 18, 2007 Report Share Posted May 18, 2007 http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/05/18/treasure.ship.ap/index.html Pretty cool. It's going to be a controlled release into the market over the next several years to keep prices high. Interesting side note, this is the only publicly traded shipwreck hunting company. Sounds like their business model is paying off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De Orc Posted May 18, 2007 Report Share Posted May 18, 2007 Now I remember where I lost them LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willieboyd2 Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 I hate to be cynical but after Bush, Iraq, ... but The company doesn't show the coins or identify the wreck by name. Is this a scam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 I hate to be cynical but after Bush, Iraq, ... but The company doesn't show the coins or identify the wreck by name. Is this a scam? It is rather easy to be cynical these days huh? Maybe they should get Dick Cheney to hide them out, he does a pretty good job of hiding himself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 I don't think they will release the name of the ship until they're done with the salvage operations nor will they start to show the coins until they've been conserved (that's cleaned to you & me). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigCanadianM Posted May 19, 2007 Report Share Posted May 19, 2007 I'd hate to own colonial silver ATM Rephrase that: I'd hate to pay x amount of dollars for it, when it probably going to be worth y amount of dollars (X>Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akdrv Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Spain: Tampa company's coin discovery "suspicious" The Spanish government is investigating if a crime was committed by a U.S. company that said it had found $500 million worth of coins in an Atlantic Ocean shipwreck, according to news reports today. Odyssey Marine Exploration, based in Tampa, revealed on Friday they had found hundreds of thousands of Colonial-era silver and gold coins in the wreck, but didn’t release details about the ship or the wreck site, citing security concerns. http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...1/70520022/1075 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted May 21, 2007 Report Share Posted May 21, 2007 Spain: Tampa company's coin discovery "suspicious" The Spanish government is investigating if a crime was committed by a U.S. company that said it had found $500 million worth of coins in an Atlantic Ocean shipwreck, according to news reports today. Odyssey Marine Exploration, based in Tampa, revealed on Friday they had found hundreds of thousands of Colonial-era silver and gold coins in the wreck, but didn’t release details about the ship or the wreck site, citing security concerns. http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/ar...1/70520022/1075 That is indeed suspicious, but the old rule is possession is 9/10ths of the law, and I am sure if indeed they got it from Spanish waters they have a come and get it attitude about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willieboyd2 Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 The plot thickens: Television news channels now report that the Spanish government is suing the "treasure finders". Also one television news report showed what looked like bags of coins and a close up of a US liberty head gold coin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 The plot thickens: Television news channels now report that the Spanish government is suing the "treasure finders". Also one television news report showed what looked like bags of coins and a close up of a US liberty head gold coin. A US gold coin, wouldn't that quite possibly negate Spanish claims of it being the "HMS Sussex"? as the Spanish are claiming? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 curiouser and curiouser.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willieboyd2 Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Here's a summary of the NBC news article. It has a photograph of the coins showing US liberty head coins. Spain makes court claim over sunken treasure Florida firm found shipwreck laden with colonial-era gold, silver coins May 21: NBC's Michael Okwu reports on the treasure hunters who found 17 tons of gold and silver coins from a colonial ship. TAMPA, Fla. - The Spanish government has filed claims in U.S. federal court over a shipwreck that a Florida firm found laden with colonial-era treasure, an attorney said Thursday. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18958738 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willieboyd2 Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 The plot thickens II Spain To Seize U.S. Treasure Hunter Ships Court Reportedly Orders Florida Firm's Ships Detained After Disputed $500M Discovery Government Wants American Company To Prove Ship Was Not Recovered In Spanish Waters MADRID, Spain, June 6, 2007 A Spanish court has ordered police to capture and search two vessels belonging to a Florida firm that recently announced it had found a shipwreck in the Atlantic Ocean laden with an estimated $500 million worth of Colonial-era treasure, news reports said Tuesday. The court in the southern port city of Cadiz instructed police to capture the vessels should they leave the British colony of Gibraltar, on Spain's southern tip, and enter Spanish waters, leading radio station Cadena SER and other media outlets reported. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/06/...in2891201.shtml Show me the money! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted June 6, 2007 Report Share Posted June 6, 2007 Me thinks the treasure, which btw is in the USA, is worth a pile more than the ships. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustin43160 Posted June 7, 2007 Report Share Posted June 7, 2007 eh i think instead of the ship/people who found the cons getting sued for finding the shipwreck think they should just gve it to me!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 I'm curious if these are colonial coins, what is that picture really from? It looks like a 10 and 20 dollar liberty head gold piece to me in that pic above. And last time I checked they weren't minted during the 16-18th century. Maybe it's that Confederate iron clad that was "lost" with all its gold, rofl. Now THAT would be some news! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 I am not so sure the pic with the $20 piece was not a ruse to throw off the whole issue with the HMS Sussex. There is so much secrecy with this that suspicions are easily aroused. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottishmoney Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 eh i think instead of the ship/people who found the cons getting sued for finding the shipwreck think they should just gve it to me!!!! With all the attached legal liabilities? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vfox Posted June 11, 2007 Report Share Posted June 11, 2007 With all the attached legal liabilities? For 500 million, sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumisMattic2200 Posted June 24, 2007 Report Share Posted June 24, 2007 Annoying, the link has gone... what were they anyway? By the way there was another huge shipwreck find, at about the same time off the west coast of England which was a pirate ship laden which gold which had been stolen from the Spanish in the Caribbean - they are giving the 'bully' back to the Spanish government.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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