Gold Bars of 18th Century Shipwreck Returned to France
In December 1746, the seas were high and the fog was thick when the Prince de Conty, a French frigate that had returned home from China with tea, ceramics, and about 100 gold bars, sank in the Atlantic, just 10 miles offshore. His bounty sank under the waves and remained untouched for 228 years until …
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