Coins found beneath the Caribbean Sea are thought to be from the San Jose treasure ship, which sunk 300 years ago and could be worth $17 billion ...

You might think the end of penny production would make the coins rare and valuable, but not so fast, warned John Haas, owner ...

Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the ...

A squadron commanded by Charles Wager sank the ship off the coast of Colombia For centuries, a £16-billion treasure trove of gold, silver and emeralds was lost beneath the waves of the Caribbean ...

The lure of sunken treasure under the waves has wreck-hunting salvage investigators scouring the sea beds to make their millions – but ownership of the lustrous loot is always hotly contested ...

The coins are a type of "wheat penny," named for the back of the coin having stalks of wheat encircling the "One Cent" text, rather than the Lincoln Memorial. They include "VDB," for designer ...

New pictures of coins from a 300-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Colombia help tell the story of the ship's journey.

Researchers have definitively identified the wreck of the San José, a Spanish galleon laden with treasure estimated at £16 billion, which sank in 1708. The discovery off the coast of Colombia has ...

While the coins may still be 600 metres below the waves, the identification of the wreck as the San Jose is likely to add fuel to an ongoing international row over who owns the treasure.

New research revealing details of gold coins found aboard a shipwreck off Colombia provides further evidence that the vessel was the San José galleon, a 300-year-old Spanish warship believed to ...