Queens Jewels, LLC

VERO BEACH, Fla. — Over $1 million worth of silver and gold coins were recovered on the Treasure Coast by Queens Jewels, LLC, a historic shipwreck operation that owns the salvage rights to the remains of the 1715 Treasure Fleet Shipwreck.

During the 2025 summer salvage season, Captain Levin Shavers and the crew of the M/V Just Right recovered over 1,000 silver coins, known as Reales. They also recovered five gold coins, called Escudos, as well as other rare gold artifacts.

The Treasure Fleet Shipwreck occurred on July 31, 1715, where an estimated $400 million worth of gold, silver and jewels were lost in the disaster. The fleet was transporting New World riches back to Spain at the time of the wreck. It has been marked as one of the greatest maritime tragedies of the

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