In 2018, graphic novelist Paco Roca and diplomat Guillermo Corral joined forces to publish El Tesoro del Cisne Negro. The Spanish government fought a succession of legal battles to recover the coins, until eventually in 2012 the US federal court upheld their claim and the coins were delivered to the National Museum of Subaquatic Archaeology in Cartagena, Murcia. In 2007 the sunken frigate was found by a Florida company called Odysseus Marine Exploration, which recovered almost 500,000 silver and gold coins from the wreck and took them to the US.
This in turn was based on the true story of Nuestra Senora de las Mercedes, a Spanish frigate sunk off the south coast of Portugal in 1804 by the British Navy while en route from Montevideo to Cadiz. La Fortuna is based on the popular Spanish graphic novel, El Tesoro del Cisne Negro (The Treasure of the Black Swan).
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