According to ISNA, the new details of the golden coins found on the coast of Colombia confirms that they belong to the Spanish Gallon San Jose, a Ganji ship that sank in a battle with the British warship in the year 6.
According to a previous Live Science report, Galon had been cut up to 3 tonnes of gold, silver and precious stones when the carrier was drowning, and today’s value could reach up to $ 5 billion.
The Colombian governme hopes to recover some of the works for a dedicated museum that has not yet been built. But there are also opposing claimas, including the Spanish governme, who claims its carcasses, no matter how old, their ownership remains owned by Spain.
The authors of the new article published on Tuesday (June 6) in the magazine “Aiquity” include researchers from the Colombian Navy and other Colombian institutions. Their analysis includes a review of images recorded by remote corol vehicles (ROVs) of dozens of coins now scattered around the carcass of about 2 meters.
In year 2, the Colombian governme announced that it had found San Jose in the Caribbean Sea of Colombia near the city of Carthans, and these observations were made during four ROV missions in the carcass in years 1 and 2.
According to the new article, observations confirm that the coins and remains of the carcass close to it are part of the remnas of the drowned ship of San Jose’s year.
According to the researchers, dozens of gold coins, the exact number of which are unclear, have seen several pois in the carcass, surrounded by other remnas such as cannons and everyday objects when the ship worked more than 5 years ago.
The researchers, using high -resolution photography, carefully examined the coins and found that their average diameter was 1.5 mm and their poteial weight was 5 grams.
ROV images showed coin designs. One side has a kind of Jerusalem cross (a large cross surrounded by four smaller cross) and a shield with castles and lions. The back of the coins is the “Heracles crown columns above the sea waves”. Of course, the waves on the coins are specific to the Lima beat.
The researchers also poied out that some coins have certain symptoms, including the signs of an assessor (metal purity test expert) from the Spanish bells in Lima.
Researchers adapted to their observations with the background of the colonial era, saying that coins and other works belong to San Jose.
Daniela Vargas Ariza, the main author of the marine article and archaeologist at the Alimiran Padyla Colombia Navigation School at Carthabah and the Colombian Institute of Ahropology and History in Bogota, said the Spanish coins were often separated from gold or silver bars.
The marine archaeologist said in a stateme:
Irregular coins that have been crushed by COBS in English and Spanish Macuquinas were used as the main money in the United States for more than two ceuries.
The richest drowning ship
The carcass of the San Jose is one of the most valuable drowning ships so far and there are severe legal disputes about who has the right to recover it, though it is not even clear to recover. Colombia hopes that part of the treasure can be sold to pay for archaeological efforts to completely recover the ship, but Colombian laws may ban the sale of anything that is considered a monume.
Spain also claims to have carcasses and all its treasures, according to an iernational conveion on “the law of the sea that states the carcasses of the warships belonging to their main coury”. But Colombia has not approved the conveion, and critics say it is to protect modern warships technologies, not the carcasses of treasures that are hundreds of years old.
On June 6, San Jose led a fleet consisting of five treasure ships from Carthaneh to Europe, which was attacked by Gardani of five British warships.
The three larger Spanish gallons responded to their balls, but San Jose was drowned when the gunpowder exploded. Most of the Spanish fleet fled to the port of Carthans and took themselves to a safe place.
