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Archeologist, Dr. Robert H. Baer said, “Close examination of the silver plates and flintlock pistol strongly indicate that these artifacts may well serve as diagnostic artifacts that may lead to the identification of the Melbourne Beach shipwreck as one of the vessels of the ill-fated Spanish 1715 Plate Fleet.”

Conclusion
From the evidence, it is concluded that the diagnostic artifacts – the Monteros Platter and the Ramirez Flintlock Pistol recovered at the Melbourne Beach site approxiamately 14 miles north of the 1715 shipwreck sites is undoubtedly cargo from a missing 1715 shipwreck. It is believed that the vessel scatter at the site is that of the Santisima Trinidad y Nuestra Señora de la Concepcieon, the vessel that transported the consigned box of presents including the Monteros Platter from Veracruz to Havana and from Havana to the Florida Treasure Coast where it was recovered almost 300 years later.
References
Burgess, Robert F. and Clausen, Carl (1982) Florida’s Golden Galleons, Florida Classics Press.
Burgess, Robert (1977) They Found Treasure. Dodd Mead.
Craig, Alan (2000) Spanish Colonial Coins in the Florida Collection. University
Press of Florida.
Craig, Alan and Richards, Ernest (2003) Spanish Treasure Bars from New World
Shipwrecks. Enrada Publications.
Lyon, Eugene (1979) The Search for the Atocha. Harper & Row.
Muckelroy, Hugh (1987) Nautical Archaeology. Cambridge University Press.
Phillips, Carla Rahn (1986) Six Galleons for the King of Spain. Johns Hopkins Press.
Potter, John (1988) The Treasure Hunters Guide. Florida Classics Library. Archives of the Indies, Seville, Spain – per Dr. John de Bry
Archives of the Indies, Seville, Spain – per Dr. Eugene Lyon
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