High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Black Swan Project is the project name given by Odyssey Marine Exploration for its discovery and recovery of an estimated US$500 million (?314 million) worth of silver and gold coins, from the ocean floor. The source of the treasure was initially rumored to be the Merchant Royal, which sank near Land's End in 1641. However, the most likely scenario now is that the recovered cargo was being carried by the Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, which sank off Portugal in 1804. However, there still remains some uncertainty as to the true source of the treasure. Odyssey Marine Exploration is a publicly traded stock company based in Tampa, Florida. The organization claims that about 75% of the coins were commercial cargo owned by Spanish merchants, not by Spain, and the Mercedes had been hired to transport the coins back to their owners in Spain. See Odyssey's Appellate brief, May 10, 2010. There could have been no intent on Spain's part to use the...

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