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'The current efforts I'm working on to provide humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine include fundraising to build shelters for women along the Ukrainian border, so that they do not fall victim to human trafficking,' she added. 'When I was a child my father told me, 'The greatest pleasure my money has ever given me is in giving it away.' I took those words to heart and he became a role model for me for the rest of my life,' Perdue told Fox News. The ring was later given to Mitzi as an engagement gift by her late husband, but its rarity means the emerald is 'expected to go well into the six figures' when it is auctioned on December 7. It contained a treasure of 180,000 coins, 24 tons of Bolivian silver and 125 bars of gold bullion together with a collection of rough-cut emeralds mined in Columbia. Published: 01:15 GMT, 6 November 2022 | Updated: 04:00 GMT, 6 November 2022ĭivers from the Key West-based Treasure Salvors toast company president, Mel Fisher, right, on the discovery of hundreds of silver bars from the Spanish wreck of the Atocha in 1985

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 Señora 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.