Scattered across the ocean floor, there are more than 300 million shipwrecks, containing billions of dollars worth of cargo. These are some of the best treasures that have been found.
Ancient bronze coins
Italian archaeologists retrieved 3,422 ancient bronze coins off the small Sicilian island of Pantelleria. The coins have been dated between 264 and 241 BC.
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Amazingly, all coins feature the same iconography on both sides, which means they were probably used as institutional payment.
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Amphoras for food
About 2,000 years ago, a Roman ship sank on a trade route between Spain and central Italy with a cargo that included more than 200 intact amphora. The jars had once contained pickled fish, grain and oil.
Gold and silver coins
The Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes sank off of Portugal’s coast in 1804 during the Battle of Cape Santa Maria.
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