500 million booty handed over to Spain

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http://www.forbes.com/sites/ceciliarodriguez/2012/02/28/chasing-gold-coins-to-spain/

The haul that arrived in Spain this week consists, among other things, of 595,000 silver and gold coins with an estimated worth of more than $500 million that were stored in the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a Spanish frigate intercepted and sunk by the English in 1804 in the Atlantic Ocean not far from Portugal.

 

[TerraDigger]

Maybe some/majority of it should have been returned to the countries the conquistidors/Spain stole it from. Compensation for killing tens of thousands of natives to mine it.

 

[earthmansurfer]

Maybe some/majority of it should have been returned to the countries the conquistidors/Spain stole it from. Compensation for killing tens of thousands of natives to mine it.

You said it very well. Funny that that almost gets lost in it all. From the article:

In fact, Spain moved so fast after the Florida court ruling that many of the plaintiffs are only now realizing that the treasure slipped their grasp