Examples of jewelry recovered from the 1565 French shipwreck survivor camps.
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Examples of jewelry recovered from the 1565 French shipwreck survivor camps. Left: A bead fashioned from a rolled silver coin, a Spanish Charles and Johanna four real believed to be from the late series (1542-1572). It was recovered from the Silver Palm Site. Center: One of four thin sheet gold pendants recovered, believed to have been cut from a hammered French gold demi-ecu coin. Right: A silver wedge chiseled from a late series Charles and Johanna four real coin (1542-1572), intended to be a pendant or possibly a manicuring tool. It was chiseled along the famed “Plus Ultra” inscription, which may indicate French rather than Indian modification, and the edges were carefully filed.

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