Miami Valley Coin Club

Sunken Treasure

Here in southwest Ohio our access to sunken treasure is somewhat slim – I found an old Robin Hood Cream Ale can while scuba diving at the old Sportsmen’s Lake in Cedarville years ago, but not much else. Maybe that’s why the following pieces that appeared in a recent issue of the E-Sylum are so interesting. The first details a website devoted to the wreck of the 1715 Spanish Treasure Fleet. It’s fascinating to see what’s come up off the ocean floor after almost three centuries. The second is from the same issue and tells the story of the SS Gairsoppa, a British cargo ship torpedoed by the Germans in WWII. The Gairsoppa went to the bottom with some 7 million (yes, that’s million) ounces of silver on board. Hmm, I wonder if there’s any submerged loot in the creek out behind my house…