 According to Podolyn, in 1761 he met in Madrid the historian and numismatist Enrique Flórez who gave him 9 coins from Carthage (2 gold and 5 bronze) and 2 from Cyrene (bronze), which Flores said were from a hoard discovered in 1749 in a black pot or vase after being washed out of the foundations of a building by a storm.The coins depicted in Podolyn's report appeared genuine when compared with designs on coins in the possession of the Prince Royal of Denmark, and the influential German historian Alexander von Humboldt fully embraced the account as proof of Carthaginian voyages to the New World.In the 19th century this was repeated as true in Chateaubriand's "Autobiography", in Daniel Wilson's "The Lost Atlantis", and in encyclopedias including the "Encyclopædia Britannica".