Researchers used robotic diving vehicles to study gold coins on the seafloor by the wreck of the Spanish galleon San José.

Gold coins from San José show castles, lions, and Jerusalem-style crosses Coins traced to the Lima mint feature 1707 assayer marks and unique symbo San José coins were irregular macuquina currency ...

said these colonial Spanish coins were often cut from gold or silver ingots. "Hand-struck, irregularly shaped coins — known as cobs in English and macuquinas in Spanish — served as the primary ...

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More than 300 years after the San José galleon sank off the coast of Cartagena, researchers have confirmed that gold coins ...

Cobs, made from gold or silver ingots, were widely used across the Spanish colonies in the Americas. These coins were not perfectly round but rather rough, making them easily distinguishable from ...

New research has brought us closer than ever to confirming the identity of one of the most famous shipwrecks in history—the ...

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