a Florida-based treasure hunting firm discovered the remains of a 450-year sunken ship with the largest cache of 16th century pewter tableware ever discovered, extremely rare Spanish silver coins ...

[In Photos: San Jose Treasure Ship Found] Treasure trove and graveyard ... of the San José wreck shouldn't be lost amid visions of silver and gold, Leidwanger and Hanselmann said.

The team identified different parts of the ship ... was fished for treasure on at least 21 occasions between 1656 and 1683, in which time around 5 million pesos' worth of silver bars, coins ...

The San Jose galleon could possibly have the world's largest sunken treasure ... ship sank as it was returning to England from Mexico and held hundreds of thousands of pounds of gold and silver.

Called the “holy grail of shipwrecks,” the Spanish galleon San José was carrying a treasure of silver, gold ... sunk after a battle with British ships off the coast of Cartagena, Colombia ...

These are a few of the biggest ... silver, and uncut gemstones when it sank in 1708 during a battle with British warships. (Read more about the San José.) Estimates of the ship’s treasure ...

Sunken ships ... a portion of the ship. Still, it wasn't until 1980 when Mel Fisher's Treasures and Blue Water Ventures found ...

The government plans to use submerged robotic technology to extract some of the treasure from the surface of the sunken ship between April and May. This could help determine what condition ...