Treasure hunters Jonah Martinez and Cole Smith discovered 22 silver Spanish coins on Friday at Wabasso Beach in south Florida, recovered from the famed 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet wreck.

Over the years, divers and treasure hunters on land and sea have come across treasures from the 1715 Spanish Fleet.

Afraid that word would leak of the treasure they were carryingmaking the Spanish fleet easy prey for piratesthe Spaniards brought the Griffon with them. It was a calm and sunny day on July 24th, 1715.

According to the 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels' Facebook page, the weather is similar to what the original salvage crews met in 1715 when trying to retrieve the treasure chests from the ocean floor.

Stolen gold coins came from 1715 sunken fleet off Florida's east coast Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission "It's definitely a passion.

Finding the 214 coins and other artifacts they salvaged from the Spanish shipwrecks known as the 1715 Treasure Fleet, is rare, they explained, because they have been salvaged for decades.

Local history: Rare porcelain from 1715 fleet reflects Spain’s trading empire This model of a heavily armed Spanish galleon was used in the late 1600s to early 1700s.

Fort Pierce salvor Eric Schmitt avoided trial by pleading no contest to charges related to selling three Spanish gold coins from the 1715 Fleet.

A diving crew's routine expedition led to the discovery of over 200 silver coins from the legendary 1715 Treasure Fleet off Florida's coast.

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MELBOURNE, Fla. — For a few weeks, the Schmitt family and 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels LLC had a million-dollar secret on their hands. Last month, they recovered $1 million worth of sunken Spanish ...

Except for the occasional coin washing ashore, the fleet was forgotten. Fast forward almost 300 years to day after the fleet sank, treasure hunters started pulling up hundreds of coins.