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

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

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 ...

The long-lost Spanish galleon is finally revealing its secrets. But untangling its ownership might take even longer.

It has also set a record sale price for any non-gold United States coin that struck before the founding of the United States Mint in 1792. The threepence was struck only a few weeks before the ...