Just a couple of months ago, another ancient shipwreck was found in Fournoi, Greece. Fournoi is a small group of islands just off of the west coast of Turkey. In this area, at least 20 shipwrecks were found in the last ten years, all of them more than 2500 years old. Now, most people have never heard of this tiny group of island, but people may have heard of the great wealth that was found in the shipwrecks.
Thousands upon thousands of some of the rarest ancient coins in the world were found in the shipwrecks. These coins are in amazing condition, and were thought for a time to not even exist. This huge finding of these coins is not just a treasure find, it´s a solved mystery. Historians and archeologists all around the world have been searching for these shipwrecks for centuries, and have never found them until now. Until then, the ships and their treasure was all a myth, and nearly proved a myth as there was not a single trace that these ships even sailed to the Fourni islands.
The coins that were found in these shipwrecks had a total worth of about $12 million. A lot of the coins were pure gold, and some were pure silver as well. Others included Cesarean coins, which are worth hundreds to thousands of dollars for only one, and thousands were found in the shipwrecks of Fourni. The great thing is that these ships crashed quite close to the shore, which makes transporting the coins to the islands much easier than the shipwrecks way out at sea. Now, these coins might be worth a lot just by themselves, but now that so many have been found, they are much less rare. Still, these coins are worth a lot, and they have endured the test of time to tell the great story that comes with them.