the greatest treasure ring
ever found in america unbelievable that
thing
that is beautiful that is spectacular
gary
22 and a half carat inca gold with
nine flawless emeralds
wow what might something like that be
worth
worth a cool free course of a million
dollars
just found on the beach yep wow
gary is spectacular find like that you
must remember that day like yesterday
i'll never forget that day i was in one
of my
favorite sites and i saw that the
treasure salvage guys were blowing to
sand off the reef
really close to shore but the one thing
that i noticed was there was a heck of a
lot of shells
and i had a feeling that those guys you
know they might have blown a treasure
coin
close to shore i start metal detector
within feet
i get a 1694 juan raila silver coin i
think oh i don't get any better than
this
the research paid off so i was like in
heaven
but then when i got to the end of the
shell pile i got the signal
it sounded like a tin can it was so loud
and i dug i knew i'll be honest i nearly
gave up i was thinking oh it's just a
tin can
and on the last scoop out pops this
fantastic piece of gold colored metal
and i thought oh no i was disappointed
at first what i thought it was a
champagne bottle
top right yeah like it's just that's
about the size of it isn't it yeah like
a wire bale and i'm like oh
no and i picked up turned it over
oh man i feel crazy just thinking about
it now
when i saw that inca gold
and nose green emeralds my knees just
turned jelly
so wait a second what's incan treasure
you know doing on the coast of florida
hurricanes mate
one word oregon like the san miguel
by the mid-18th century hundreds of
spanish
french and portuguese treasure galleons
attempted to navigate their way
from south and central america back to
their home nations
and their monarchs a lot of treasure was
smuggled
if the manifest said 100 million dollars
it might have had 200 million on it
there was a lot of hidden treasure
because they didn't want to pay taxes
once
jewelry was not taxed at the same rate
as bullying by the crown
so they would make jewelry out of
everything they could
which is why they would wear 17 pounds
of gold on them
they would tax cheats just like we have
them now
each spring a fleet of spanish treasure
ships
embarked on the often harrowing journey
back to spain
the galleons were heavily fortified
against pirates
but had little protection from bad
weather
and the storms took a devastating toll
after the seventeen only
one treasure flea the 1705
fleet that was laden with treasure got
back to spain
in 1715 king philip of spain
found himself in a personal quandary
that motivated him to launch a new fleet
of ships
to bring gold silver and jewels back
from the new world
so king philip gave out wood
i need the treasure because he was
married
to isabel and isabelle wouldn't
consummate the marriage
unless she got the dowry of jewels
so poor old philip he's like i ain't
having any of this
i need that treasure so he gave the word
to set sail the 1715 fleet
consisted of eleven ships six filled
with treasure
while the others were heavily armed in
order to protect
the precious cargo
unfortunately the 1715 fleet
they made it through the florida straits
but they were ripped by an horrendous
hurricane
on july the 31st 1750
the entire fleet and billions of dollars
of treasure
including the queen's jewels was lost
today some 300 years later this stretch
of florida coastline
near vero beach is known as the treasure
coast
due to the vast riches that often wash
ashore
i knew what this was
this would have been destined for queen
isabel
it has to be i i just could not believe
something so beautiful has been rolling
around in the surf for
300 years but one thing i do know
this ring is the king of the bobby
dazzlers
this treasure ring was part of
queen isabelle's dowry oh yeah this was
intended for queen
isabel of spain that is pretty cool she
was supposed to wear that ring yeah
you got it oh yeah it must make your
wife feel pretty special
yeah it did and my wife put it on
yeah she did so instead of going to
queen isabelle
of spain it went to queen
jennifer of florida
well said gary
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