172-Year-Old Champagne Salvaged From Baltic Sea Shipwreck Could Be Worth Millions

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172-Year-Old Champagne Salvaged From Baltic Sea Shipwreck Could Be Worth Millions
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17, 2010 in Mariehamn. Finnish officials pop the cork of a 200-year-old bottle of champagne, after 70 bottles of what is believed to be the world's oldest bubbly were discovered on July 2010 in a shipwreck, at a depth of fifty meters, southeast of Mariehamn, on the southwestern Finnnish Aaland Islands of the Baltic Sea. AFP PHOTO/JONATHAN NACKSTRAND

. It wasn’t a new discovery. The scuttled schooner from the mid-19th century was initially found back in 2016 and has been registered with the country’s National Antiquities Office ever since. Unbeknownst to all, however, was the valuable cargo hidden within its hull: a liquid treasure that could be worth upwards of $4 million.

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