Divers exploring a shipwreck off Florida’s Atlantic coast have discovered a treasure trove of silver and gold coins estimated to be worth $1 million.

The team discovered more than 1,000 precious pieces of currency believed to have originated from Spanish colonies in modern-day Bolivia, Peru and Mexico.

The coins were found as part of a shipwreck salvage operation undertaken by 1715 Fleet-Queens Jewels LLC, which announced the discovery this week.

The operation owns the salvage rights to the 1715 Treasure Fleet, which, according to its website, was carrying a vast fortune of colonial riches back to Spain when it sank during a ferocious storm on July 31, 1715.

“Historians estimate that as much as $400 million worth of gold, silver, and jewels were lost in the storm, making it one o

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