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Shipwrecked silver begins voyage back to Spain

Associated Press

  February 25, 2012

A 17-ton haul of silver coins, lost for two centuries in the wreck of a sunken Spanish galleon, began its journey back to its home country yesterday after the deep-sea explorers who lifted it to the surface lost their claim to ownership. Two massive cargo planes - Spanish military C-130s - took off just after noon from a Florida Air Force base with 594,000 silver coins and other artifacts aboard.

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