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according to the wikipedia article, the ship had 13 metric tons of gold loaded. One kg is currently worth about USD 62K, so the whole load of the ship must have
by pilif 5y ago
according to the wikipedia article, the ship had 13 metric tons of gold loaded. One kg is currently worth about USD 62K, so the whole load of the ship must have been worth way more than 4m (~USD 800M in todays USD, so about half back when this happened).
So what I believe happened given both sources is that the investors paid 12M to get the 13 tons of gold (worth 800M) and then 4M worth of gold (0.5%) went "missing".
The investors wanted all of their 13 tons including the missing 64kg.
And so now that person is in jail without a sentence until he tells them where those 0.5% have gone.
- lakis 5y agoFrom the wikipedia article "The original expedition had only excavated "5 percent" of the ship" So the majority of the gold has not been recovered yet. It seems that some small part of the gold was recovered, some of it was sold/auctioned. 92% of the gold was awarded to the discovery team. But the instead of divining the god he had (500 gold coins), he went into hiding. The value of the 500 gold coins seems to be about $19.4 millions.