Exhibition of ancient coins from shipwreck
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THOUSANDS of gold and silver coins pulled from a 19th-century shipwreck went on show in a Spanish museum on Thursday after Spain won them from US treasure hunters in a court battle.
The cargo from the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes warship came to Spain in 2012 after a five-year legal battle with Odyssey, the US company that hauled it up two centuries after it sank.
Officials on Thursday inaugurated a new exhibition at the Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology in Cartagena.
It features 8,000 coins — a fraction of the estimated 580,000 found in the wreck — plus other precious artifacts.
British warships sank the Spanish naval vessel in 1804 off the coast of Portugal as it returned from Peru, part of the Spanish empire at the time. Odyssey Marine Exploration found it in 2007.
Spanish authorities said at the time the trove was worth at least 350 million euros (US$476 million).
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