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In this photo provided by Odyssey Marine Exploration, Ground crew members unload more than 17 tons of silver coins Wednesday, May 16, 2007 at an undisclosed location. The Spanish government said Thursday May 31, 2007 it has filed a lawsuit in a U.S. federal court against the American treasure-hunting firm over a shipwreck the company has found laden with a colonial-era treasure. (AP Photo/Odyssey Marine Exploration, Jonathan Blair)

According to todays silver prices, 17 tons of coin is worth at least 7.5 million dollars.

Spain’s Culture Ministry has called that discovery -- one of the world’s biggest finds of sunken treasure—suspicious and said the booty may have come from a wrecked Spanish galleon

Yeah, no spit Senor Mr. Culture.

And after a couple hundred years of spanish treasure ships being considered “fair game” on the high seas, do you really want to say that you OWN this bullion in a court of law?  This day and age, I’d bet on the mexican and south american lawyers to have a far better claim to the proceeds of south american gold & silver… except for the obvious fact that EVERYONE seems to have left it lying on the bottom of the sea for a few centuries, with only the crabs to guard it…

Effin lawyers… lets make them all walk the plank and we’ll just split the booty, eh matey?

Either that, or we’ll just run em up the sword and take what we want.  Right, hombres? Like we did back in the good ole days? Santiago!