When it was found in the 1970s, its treasure of gold doubloons was just as valuable as it was when the ship left Havana 350 years before.
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Michiel de Ruyter hangs alongside plundered treasure gold coins, mighty cannons, a carved bowsprit that he wrested from Spanish ships in battle.
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The telecom industry is like a big fat treasure galleon, bloated with gold, that's being attacked and boarded by pirates.
That year's Treasure Act makes the process for gold and silver finds over 300 years old absolutely clear.
It seemed a pity to have travelled to one of the gaudiest treasure ports along the old Spanish Main and to not at least have a crack at seeing some gold doubloons, especially since rumours abound of beachcombers here occasionally finding delicious bits of treasure washed up on the sands after a storm.
The pieces include a rare Gutenberg bible, paintings by Monet and Matisse, and priceless 5, 000 year-old gold artefacts known as Priam's Treasure.
But investors in gold exploration probably care more about the treasure to be unearthed than the trickle of income from ongoing sales.
If the old gold there intrigues you, the second Treasure Gallery will transport you: illuminated case after case of works, mundane and magisterial, imbued with the subtle power to reach out to us across these centuries.
But morels are the treasure everyone's really looking for, rare as gold and priced much like it.
But arguably the museum's rarest and most magical holdings are the troves of ancient gold locked away in the guided-tour-only Treasure Galleries.
The main Treasure Gallery most visitors are likely to see provides a hefty hors d'oeuvre portion of ancient gold works before segueing into various latter-day Czarist excesses (the diamond-crusted horse blanket, gift of a Turkish sultan, comes to mind).
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