Researchers used robotic diving vehicles to study gold coins on the seafloor by the wreck of the Spanish galleon San José.

Centuries-old coins, believed to be part of a $17 billion treasure trove on the shipwreck of the Spanish galleon ship San ...

Wreck of Legendary Spanish Galleon With $17 Billion Cargo Confirmed by Coin Evidence. ... The obverse of coins show a Jerusalem cross enclosing castles and lions, a symbol of Castile and Leon.

N ew details of gold coins found off the coast of Colombia around the "world's richest shipwreck" verify they are from the Spanish galleon San José, a treasure ship that sank in 1708 during a ...

Considered the Holy Grail of all shipwrecks, the Spanish galleon San Jose blew up and sank in 1708 at the hands of British cannons, and it took with it what experts have estimated to be $17 billion in ...

Experts have confirmed that dozens of gold coins scattered across the ocean floor off the coast of Colombia belonged to the San José, an ill-fated Spanish treasure galleon that sank over 300 ...

Gold coins found in centuries-old shipwrecks off Colombia 00:53. More than three centuries after a legendary Spanish galleon loaded with treasure sank off the coast of Colombia, researches have ...

Heraldic symbols bear the crests of the crowns of Castile and Leon, indicating a Hispanic galleon, the study found. The coins also bear a Jerusalem Cross, Columns of Hercules, sea waves, and ...

300-Year-Old Coins Help Confirm Shipwreck as the Long-Lost San José Galleon The Spanish galleon sank in 1708 and was discovered in 2015, but its true identity remained unconfirmed—until now.

New research revealing details of gold coins found aboard a shipwreck off Colombia provides further evidence that the vessel was the San José galleon, a 300-year-old Spanish warship believed to ...