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Listen: The Latin ProgramA handful of silver coins and a treasure chest displayed at McKee's Museum of Sunken Treasure - Plantation Key, Florida
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Treasure chest is recovered along beach between Fort Lauderdale and Miami. Hand holds coins with numismatic value of around $2,500, including a rare pillar dollar (only 14 of this date known to exist). Coins are from wreck of Spanish treasure galleon sunk by hurricane off Plantation Key in 1733. The museum, owned by treasure diver Arthur McKee, is located at Treasure Harbor, U.S.1, on Plantation Key, 5 miles south of Tavernier.
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