300-Year-Old Gold Coins Discovered Off Florida Coast
PHOTO: A florida company, 1715 Queens Fleet Jewels, found 48 coins off the coast of Sebastian coast, estimated to cost $250k that they are sending to private investors.


Brent Brisben, who owns the shipwreck salvage company 1715 Fleet - Queens Jewels LLC, discovered the coins with a four-member crew as part of his excavation quest Saturday. A half hour into their quest, the crew was only 100 feet away from the shore when they discovered the coins.

"It's something I will never forget," Brisben told ABC News. "To be one of the first person to touch these things in over 300 years is amazing."






In 2010, Brisben and his crew discovered a bronze cannon filled with 50 gold coins and 40 silver coins that were valued at half a million dollars. That same year, they found an "extremely rare" gold artifact appraised at $885,000 which the company sold to a private collector in San Francisco.


Courtesy Brent Brisben/1715 Queens Fleet Jewels
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