This photo provided by shipwreck salvage company 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC shows Spanish coins the firm uncovered from a shipwreck off the Atlantic coast of Florida, 2025. (1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels, LLC via AP)

Hidden beneath the turquoise waters off a stretch of Florida known as the “Treasure Coast,” a team of divers from a shipwreck salvage company have uncovered exactly that — a load of long-lost Spanish treasure they estimate is worth $1 million.

More than 1,000 silver and gold coins thought to be minted in the Spanish colonies of Bolivia, Mexico and Peru were uncovered this summer off Florida’s Atlantic coast, 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels LLC announced this week.

It’s not the first time the site has yielded a trove of, well, treasure.

Centuries ago, a fleet of Spanish ships

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