By HuntTreasure.net on May 15, 2008 in Featured, Shipwreck News, Treasure Finds | 0 Comments
Rare gold coins discovered in a sunken steamship off the Louisiana coast have been put under the microscope of sorts, by coin experts.
The SS New York was a 165-foot side-wheel steamship that was found under some 60 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico.
It carried within its hull coins made in [...]
By HuntTreasure.net on May 7, 2008 in Featured, News Accounts, Shipwreck News | 0 Comments
Odyssey Marine Exploration, a shipwreck treasure-hunting company based in Florida, has announced their first quarter 2008 earnings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
By accounts, their legal battle with Spain over the 17-tons of silver coins found in a shipwreck of May of 2007 isn’t helping them. Not only must the legal bills be substantial, [...]
By HuntTreasure.net on Mar 19, 2008 in Archaelogical Discoveries and Events, Featured, News Accounts, Treasure Finds | 0 Comments
Two metal detecting men uncovered 49 coins in a field that was once the site of a Roman encampment. The field is near Ugthorpe, UK and has been the source of at least two other finds.
The Roman coins, along with part of a brooch discovered, were declared treasure. Russell Willis, one of [...]
By Darrin Unser on Mar 6, 2008 in Featured, Shipwreck News, Treasure Finds | 0 Comments
Taking steps that could be considered more procedural in impact, U.S. District Judge Steven D. Merryday made several rulings in relationship to the Odyssey Marine Exploration, Inc. v. The Unidentified Shipwrecked Vessel (Spain) case.
As you may recall from past HuntTreasure.net articles, this series of events started in May of 2007, when the [...]