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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 1424214, member: 4381&quot;]<a href="http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/battle-for-spanish-treasure-reaches-climax-1.1268472" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/battle-for-spanish-treasure-reaches-climax-1.1268472" rel="nofollow">http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/battle-for-spanish-treasure-reaches-climax-1.1268472</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Battle for Spanish treasure reaches climax</p><p><br /></p><p>April 2 2012 at 10:09am</p><p>By Roland Lloyd Parry</p><p><br /></p><p>Comment on this story</p><p>iol scitech april 2 spain treasure</p><p><br /></p><p>AP</p><p><br /></p><p>File photo: Spain&#039;s education, culture and sports minister, Jose Ignacio Wert, second left, speaks during a press conference after Spain&#039;s recovered the nearly 600,000 silver and gold coins of a shipwreck, in Madrid.</p><p><br /></p><p>Madrid - A court battle over treasure from an old Spanish shipwreck has reached Gibraltar, where descendants of the sunken cargo&#039;s owners are fighting to win back part of the booty from Spain.</p><p><br /></p><p>The British-administered territory has been drawn into a tangled squabble between Spain, US treasure hunters and the Latin American descendants, in a case harking back to the days of the Spanish empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Mathilde Daireaux Kinsky, an Argentinian who lives in Colombia, says part of the cargo of the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, sunk by the British in a sea battle in 1804, belonged to her ancestor Diego de Alvear y Ponce de Leon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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