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La Fortuna - A made for TV COIN Movie on available on DVDs

A rogue treasure hunter fights the Spanish government for control of a sunken vessel.

Stanley Tucci plays Frank Wild, an American treasure hunter and his high-tech vessel are navigating the Strait of Gibraltar when they come across what initially appears to be a pile of shells, but turns out to be a vast cache of gold and silver coins, valued at half-a-billion dollars.

Wild has discovered the wreck of La Fortuna, a ship that went down in 1804 loaded with riches from the New World. He is treated as a hero until Spanish authorities determine that La Fortuna was a Spanish ship and therefore the treasure belongs to Spain.

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