Silver discovery in front of Sainte Marie 2015

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The alleged silver find off Sainte Marie includes a 50 kilogram gray bar that was recovered from the island of Sainte Marie off Madagascar in early May 2015 . The elongated bar, only rounded at one end and with the large embossing "TS" and two identical smaller, two-line "IXB; 9 (B-serpentine)" stamped on the top, has a central shrinkage groove halfway along its length and was according to the presentation on May 7, 2015 in Madagascar allegedly discovered in a shipwreck by a team of underwater researchers led by the American Barry Clifford . It has been suggested that the piece of metal was made of silver(Note density 10.49 kg / dm3) and belonged to the treasure of the Scottish pirate William Kidd , who was active in the 17th century.

The wreck could be Kidd's Adventure Galley, which sank in 1698 or January 1699 . The bar was given to President Hery Rajaonarimampianina and was to be exhibited in a museum in Madagascar.

On July 15, 2015, ORF.at reported on the findings of a UNESCO team of experts who were in Madagascar in June 2015. The director Michel L'Hour explained: "There is no silver treasure." The alleged wreck is a broken part of the port structure on the island of Sainte-Marie, the alleged "silver bar" is a ballast block (of a ship) made of 95% lead (note Density of lead: 11.34 kg / dm3). The alleged treasure was presented to the President of Madagascar in May "with great fuss" by Clifford's team. For Clifford it is the second setback in his underwater treasure hunt that the British television station History Channel is filming a series. The wreckage of Columbus' flagship Santa Maria [sic] discovered by Clifford in 2013 off Haiti was, according to counter-experts, wooden parts from the late 18th century.

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  1. ↑ http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/wissen/geschichte/War-dieser-Silberbarren-Teil-eines-Piratenschatzes/story/27661542 Was this silver bar part of a pirate's treasure? Tagesanzeiger, Zurich May 8, 2015. Last accessed July 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://orf.at/#/stories/2289274/ “Pirate treasure” off Madagascar was fake, ORF.at, July 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Ulli Kulke: What an embarrassment. The great silver treasure was just a lump of lead , in: Die Welt , July 18, 2015, p. 1