Lawmaker proposes selling Florida's Treasure


	Lawmaker proposes selling Florida's Treasure

ramsesemerson

4-17-2008 10:27 AM

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treasure, piracy, pirates, florida

ramsesemerson says:

I'm not sure if he's a pirate or a king selling the treasury, but either way this is cool (if sad).

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Rep. Juan Zapata wants to plunder Florida's booty.</DIV>
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One of the world's largest publicly owned collections of Spanish treasure - doubloons and other coins, some gold and silver ingots and chains - belongs to the state.</DIV>
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"We have some interesting goodies in the closet," said the Miami Republican. "Why not have an interesting garage sale, put them out there and see what we can get for them?"</DIV>
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How much the state could reap, though, is uncertain, as lawmakers struggle with a budget that is $5 billion smaller than the previous one.</DIV>

One expert says Florida's 1,600 gold and 22,000 silver coins are worth at least $17 million, but state officials say the collection is priceless.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CD7BCD8F-B194-4EDE-BE93-1E81FFEE0F9A/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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