Treasure Coins: Ancient Gold Coins Recovered from Shipwrecks
Treasure Coins: Ancient Gold Coins Recovered From Shipwrecks Dokos Shipwreck, the oldest in the world, was discovered by the father of underwater archaeology, Peter Throckmorton, after almost four thousand years on August 23, 1975. A simple pile of ceramics and stone anchors and other stone items devoid of all biodegradable organic material, this wreck, unfortunately, contains no coins for one simple reason: the wooden vessel sank beneath the waves almost 2,000 years before the first coins were struck from electrum in Lydia. Since then, UNESCO estimates that over three million other vessel...
Source: coinweek.com