Its Everyone's Wish To Find Hidden Or Lost Treasures At Sea Right?
I remember when I was a child growing up, my cousins and I would frequent the lush Caribbean shorelines just to have another day of blissful adventure. Sun, Sea, and Sand was the name of the game and we wouldn't have it any other way. Often times though, one of our most adventurous conquests included Treasure Hunting and Oh how we loved finding treasures. Sadly, the downside to finding these treasures were; they were all our own belongings ! which we hid there for ourselves and most times we even lost them to the sea. I think even as children, internally we knew that the chances of really stumbling across lost treasures or valuables from an actual shipwreck were slim to NONE.
However many years later I actually found this notion to be untrue and the chances of us Islanders possessing material as this was very much possible. What really happened though, is that our ancestors had actually beaten us at this game many centuries ago and they were the ones who were privy to the Treasure Chest.
Lets fast forward, to a couple more years down the road when I finally became an adult, my mother was distributing wealth when she brought out a bag containing many trinkets and valuables, she then took out two coins or what appeared to be coins, at the time, and gave them to me. They were much bigger and heavier than coins and bore strange engravements. My eyes gleamed as I immediately reverted back to my treasure hunting days, only this time I had genuinely stumbled upon real treasures of the sea.
She told me that they were from my great grandparents and they had been in the family for many years. They obviously meant a lot to her and she wanted me to have them. I was really grateful for that inheritance so I stored them away safely from that day on, occasionally returning to them for a sneak peek.
As time passed by I became very active with the internet and I eventually attempted to do some research and tried to trace the origin of these solid silver beauties. Several attempts were made but all were to no avail. It turned out that information on these specimen were very difficult to acquire. I did not give up though until one day I wrote to an institution in the U.S stating all the details about them and finally got some feedback. As it turned out they were not coins indeed but medallions from a Spanish Ship Wreck, which took place in the Caribbean during the Spanish Conquest To Lesser Antilles.
Parting with them would be a great deal to me but I realize I cannot give justice to them on this platform, so if you might be reading this and you have the right resources to showcase these beauties, please contact me for details.
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