Gold Bar from the sunken Spanish Wreck, Atocha, is held by a member of the Treasure Salvors in the Florida Keys.

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Gold treasure from the Spanish treasure ship Atocha that sunk off the Florida Keys during a hurricane in 1622 and recovered by Mel Fischer and his Treasure Salvors -- Nuestra Señora de Atocha (Spanish: Our Lady of Atocha) was a Spanish treasure galleon and the most widely known vessel of a fleet of ships that sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622. At the time of her sinking, Nuestra Señora de Atocha was heavily laden with copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, and indigo from Spanish ports at Cartagena and Porto Bello in New Granada (present-day Colombia and Panama, respectively) and Havana, bound for Spain.

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Size: 2480px × 3600px
Location: Key West, Florida, USA
Photo credit: © Pat Canova / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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