The Latin American nation said the gold and silver was mined, refined and minted in that country, which at the time was part of the Spanish empire.
MADRID(commodity news world): Peruvians across the nation accused its government's inability and lack of speedy actions to prevent the treasure from a wrecked ship being flown to Spain from the US.
It's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to block transfer of the huge multimillion-dollar undersea treasure recovered from the wreckage of a ship that had left from Lima's port more than 200 years ago.
The Latin American nation said the gold and silver was mined, refined and minted in that country, which at the time was part of the Spanish empire.
However,the arrived too late, as the gold was flown to Madrid and safely removed to a secure place.
Meanwhile, Spain rejected Peru's claim and said the the legacy of the Mercedes belongs to Spain.
According to an official from Spain's National Museum of Archaeology, the coins were minted not just in Peru but also in Bolivia, Colombia and Chile. And the whole affair involved in claiming the coins was not about monetary value but rather history.
Spain recovered the nearly 600,000 coins mostly silver but a few made of gold on Saturday after a five-year battle in US courts with a Florida deep-sea exploration firm Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc.
The Florida-based Odyssey found the shipwreck off Portugal near the Strait of Gibraltar, taking the booty first to the British colony of Gibraltar at Spain's southern tip and then to Florida.
The coin treasure is estimated to be worth as much as $500 million
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