By Sam Webb PUBLISHED: 06:10 EST, 4 November 2013 | UPDATED: 09:47 EST, 4 November 2013 A bounty of 16th century treasure discovered perfectly preserved in a 500-year-old shipwreck is to go on sale in Britain for £200,000. Specialist divers spent two years extracting the pewter plates and bowls from beneath the waves off the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean. More than 1,200 items of the finest quality English pewter were recovered from the wreck of the unnamed galleon which is thought to have sunk around 1540. Bounty of the deep: 16th century treasure discovered perfectly preserved in a 500-year-old shipwreck is to go on sale in Britain for £200,000
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Divers spent two years recovering the haul from the bed of the Caribbean
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The unnamed galleon is thought to have sunk around 1540
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It held 1,200 top quality items, bound for Spanish ambassador's mansion
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