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Maybe I missed it, where did you see the $2-4 million? The wiki article says "the total value of the recovered gold was estimated at $100–150 million."
by mapmap 5y ago
Maybe I missed it, where did you see the $2-4 million? The wiki article says "the total value of the recovered gold was estimated at $100–150 million."
- spullara 5y agoIn this article: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/14/tommy-thompson-treasure-jail-ship-of-gold https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/14/tommy-thomps...
- pilif 5y agoaccording 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.