Dragão Porto Comments On Sunken Treasure Haul That Arrives In Spain From US

March 12, 2012 - PRLog -- On Friday, Spain's ambassador to the US had watched the planes take off at 5.30 GMT from MacDill Air Force Base, Florida. The reason being the haul of gold and silver coins salvaged from a sunken Spanish galleon was making their way to Spain after five years of legal ownership wrangles. The coins arrived at an airbase at Torrejon de Ardoz, north of Madrid, on Saturday afternoon in two military transport planes. Ambassador Jorge Dezcallar de Mazar said "This is history. We bear witness to that fateful day 200 years ago, this is not money. This is historical heritage.
Odyssey, based in the Florida city of Tampa, said they had found the wreck in international waters in 2007, and quickly flew the coins to Miami, where they claimed salvage rights. However, once the Spanish government learnt of the haul, it began legal challenges against Odyssey in an effort to recover the coins. The 594,000 coins and other artefacts are believed to have been recovered from the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, sunk by a British warship in 1804. A Source for Dragao Porto has said “It is so nice to see these priceless pieces of history returning to Spain, So that the Spanish people can look upon its historical heritage”
Despite an ongoing battle with high unemployment and debt concerns, Spain's Culture Ministry has ruled out the idea of the treasure being sold to pay off the country's national debt, the Associated Press news agency reported. Instead the coins will be exhibited in Spanish museums.
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