400 Year old Shipwreck Treasure!! The Nuestra Señora de Atocha shipwreck sink off the coast of the Florida Keys in 1622 due to a hurricane the scattered the contents of the hall across the sea floor. Over $500 million with gold and silver coins were recovered from the wreckage in 1985 by Mel Fisher and his team of treasure hunters. Alongside all of the gold, silver and emeralds, were also 582 copper bars used as a ballast for the ship. We took one of these copper bars, melted it down and had it