Famous findSank on 5 October 1804 · found 2007
The Mercedes Treasure: 594,000 silver coins from a sunken Spanish frigate, won back in an American court
In 2007 a US salvage company raised about 594,000 coins from a Spanish frigate that blew up off southern Portugal in 1804 and flew them to Florida. Spain sued, the American courts ruled the wreck was still a Spanish warship, and in 2012 the treasure went home.