2. The Retaliation of Queen Anne
Value as of right now: unknown
Year Vanished: 1718 Year Found: 1996
Not every treasure that is discovered at the ocean’s bottom is worth a lot of money. For historians, it can occasionally be worth just as much as a gold bar. The Queen Anne’s Revenge was captained by the infamous pirate Blackbeard, but the ship sank in 1718.
The Retaliation of Queen Anne ©Juha Flinkman, SubZone OY, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
It was discovered in 1996, somewhere off the coast of North Carolina, but it wasn’t confirmed until 2011, many years later. A sword that many believe may have belonged to Blackbeard himself is among the types of treasure discovered; even though it isn’t filled with emeralds, this blade is still rather spectacular.
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