![]() The ring is estimated to fetch up to $70,000 when auctioned in December.After donating the majority, he kept an emerald to use as an engagement ring to propose to Mitzi, who he married in 1988.Frank Perdue was a member of one America's wealthiest families who helped fund the expedition and was given some of the recovered treasure.In 1985, diver Mel Fisher uncovered the main hull of the Atocha, which contained a treasure of 180,000 coins, 24 tons of Bolivian silver, 125 bars of gold bullion.The 6.25 carat octagonal step-cut emerald was carried onboard the Nuestra SeƱora de Atocha, a famous Spanish galleon that sank in 1622.The widow of former Perdue Farms CEO, Mitzi Perdue, is preparing to sell the ring and donate all of the proceeds to humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.An emerald ring lost on a Spanish shipwreck for four centuries before being rediscovered is to be auctioned by its current owner in December. ![]() Heiress reveals astonishing history of $70k emerald ring she is auctioning for Ukraine: Her husband pulled gem from Spanish galleon that sank in 1622 after relentless 16-year search that cost him millions.
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