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Story highlights Treasure hunters find 48 gold "escudo" coins in wreckage of Spanish galleon 
  
 The entire fleet of 11 ships was sunk by a hurricane in 1715 
  
 The oldest coin bears the date 1697 
  
 The coins have an estimated value of nearly $250,000 
  
 "Constantly searching for a needle in a haystack" is what Brent Brisben says he does for a living, and on days like Saturday, the payoff makes the work worthwhile. 
  
 Brisben owns the 1715 Treasure Fleet Queen's Jewels salvage company. This weekend, he and his crew of three found quite a few "needles" in their oceanic "haystack" -- 48 gold coins that date back 300 years, to be exact. 
  
 The coins, called escudos, were part of the treasure aboard a fleet of 11 Spanish galleons wrecked by a hurricane off the Florida coast on July 31, 1715. It was this famous shipwreck that gave this part of Florida its nickname, The Treasure Coast. 
  
 The coins appear to be in good condition, and still have some legible dates and markings. The oldest bears the date 1697; the youngest is dated 1714. 
  
 The 48 coins have an estimated value of $200,000 to $250,000, said Brisben. 
  
 Perhaps the most surprising thing about the expedition is that the coins were found just 100 feet from the shoreline, in only six feet of water. 
  
 Though Brisben admits his work is exciting, he says it's not like you see in the movies. "You may expect to see a big galleon on its side with treasure chests overflowing, but it's not like that at all," he said. 
  
 "With shipwrecks that old, most of the organic material like the actual wood of the ship is gone, due to deterioration. What's left are mostly metals and pottery... china, silver buckles, bronze cannons and gold coins." 
  
 The coins will be sold to private collectors and the money raised from the sale will finance further searching of the wreckage site, Brisben said. ||||| Modern salvage on the 1715 Fleet began in the late 1950s, when a building contractor from Miamisburg, Ohio, Kip Wagner found a piece of eight on the beach after a hurricane and decided to find out where it came from. After discovering Bernard Romans 1774 chart with an interesting notation printed on it: “Opposite this river, perished the Admiral, commanding the Plate Fleet in 1715”, he knew the source. With the help of an army-surplus metal detector, he located the original Spanish salvage camp and unearthed coins and period artifacts. After this incredible find, he realized that just beyond the breaking waves must lay one of the long forgotten treasure ships of 1715. He then ingeniously fashioned a small surfboard with a glass viewing port and began paddling around searching for some trace of the wreck he was certain was there. On a calm afternoon several weeks later, he sighted five cannon in nine feet of water. And thus, the modern day salvage of the 1715 Fleet began. Kip found the source of the coins and soon formed a team of divers and associates backed by a salvage permit from the State of Florida. All of this took place over a period of years before it evolved into the Real Eight Company, the origin of whose name is obvious. To salvage the wreck, the Real Eight divers originally used a dredge and suction apparatus. In 1963 treasure hunting was changed forever. Mel Fisher arrived on the Treasure Coast and formed Treasure Salvors, Inc. After working the wreck with dredge pumps, Fisher developed what he called the “mailbox system.” It consisted of a metal tube, bent in the shape of an elbow, several inches wider in diameter than the vessel’s propeller. The stream of water was deflected downward and acted like a whirlpool, which lifted the sands below and gently excavated down to bedrock. When divers swam to the bottom they found gold jewels, Chinese porcelain, silverware, gold and silver ingots, and as many as 7,000 gold cobs of the Mexico, Peru, and Colombia mints; and, mostly in encrusted clusters, well over 150,000 silver cobs of all denominations. The salvaged coins were all cobs, both gold (Mexico, Bogotá, Lima, and Cuzco) and silver (mostly Mexico but also some Lima and Potosi), minted primarily between 1711 and 1715. Many of the dates and types of the 1700-1715 period had been either rare or unknown prior to the salvage of the 1715 Fleet. The gold coins, as can be expected, have been generally pristine, as have been some of the silver coins, but most silver cobs from the 1715 Fleet are at least somewhat corroded, some no more than thin, featureless slivers. In the 70’s Fisher and his crew left the treasure coast for the Florida Keys on his search for the Atocha. Salvage operations continued on the 1715 fleet under the supervision of Mel’s daughter, Taffi Fisher–Abt until 2010. On June 24, 2010, 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels took over salvage operations. A mere 17 days later, Capt Greg Bounds and the crew of the Goldhound found a bronze swivel gun filled with gold and silver coins. While salvors have long told stories about treasure being hidden inside cannon, on July 11, 2010 those fables were validated for the first time. A month later, Capt Bonnie Schubert recovered one of the most amazing artifacts ever recovered on the 1715 fleet. The “bird” as it has become known, is a relic so magnificent it has to be seen - to be believed. With the return of these capable subcontractors and interest from countless others, 2011 is shaping up to be a banner year for the fleet. ||||| WABASSO BEACH, Fla. - For Captain Greg Bounds, Saturday on the "Capitana" started like any other. 
  
 "From getting on the boat, and getting ready, it's hard work," Bounds said. "We're out there, all day, pulling ropes and diving, and lifting anchors, big heavy anchors. It's the hardest job I've ever had in my life." 
  
 Bounds and his crew headed offshore, about 200 feet off the coastline on Wabasso Beach, then began looking for sunken treasure. 
  
 It sounds glamorous, but it can take years to find anything. 
  
 "A lot of times, it's beer cans, fishing weights, just garbage," explained Bounds. 
  
 But Saturday turned out to be their lucky day. Bounds found forty-eight gold coins, buried in the sand. 
  
 "You go out every day, hoping that it's gonna happen, and a lot of times it doesn't," said Bounds. "But when it does, it's just amazing, the feeling that you get." 
  
 Brent Brisben's company, 1715 Fleet Queen's Jewels, owns the salvage rights to the shipwrecks they hunt, off the Sebastian Inlet. 
  
 "Eleven Spanish galleons, loaded with treasure, were sunk along the coastline out here by a hurricane (in 1715)," said Brisben. "That's what gives us the Treasure Coast." 
  
 Brisben said finding the gold coins from ships that wrecked almost 300 years ago is exhilarating. 
  
 "To see (Bounds) come up out of the water, and over the rail, I'll never forget, he waves us in," recalled Brisben. "He says, 'I think I got one more,' and he drops about fifteen in my hand." 
  
 Valued at almost a quarter million dollars, the clink of the sound of the golden coins is music to the treasure hunters' ears. 
  
 "I love the sound of gold," said Bounds, pouring the coins from hand-to-hand. "This makes it all worth it." |||||

You may want to pack your snorkeling gear the next time you're headed to Florida's eastern coast. The owner of a shipwreck-seeking salvage company has announced that he discovered 48 gold coins worth as much as $250,000 off Wabasso Beach on Saturday. And as CNN reports, he made the find just 100 feet from shore, at a depth of just 6 feet. The coins seem to be in good condition, so much so that their dates can be read—they were made between 1697 and 1714. Brent Brisben was trawling an area befitting a search: the "Treasure Coast," a part of Florida along the Atlantic where 11 treasure-laden Spanish galleons sank in a 1715 hurricane. But as WPTV reports, in their three years of searching, this is only the second time they've found so many coins. "It sounds glamorous, but it can take years to find anything," says Captain Greg Bounds. "A lot of times, it's beer cans, fishing weights, just garbage." (For more shipwreck news, head here.)