It would go on to be called one of the most valuable single objects ever recovered from a shipwreck. Tucker eventually sold the entire haul to the government of Bermuda so the treasure could stay on the island, and the cross went on public display, first at the Bermuda Aquarium and later at the Bermuda Maritime Museum. Then, in 1975, just before Queen Elizabeth II arrived for a scheduled visit to the museum, the real cross vanished from its case and was replaced with a near-identical plastic replica. The case has taken on a strange irony over time, since a treasure recovered from centuries beneath the sea, preserved specifically so it would never leave Bermuda, disappeared instead from a supposedly secure museum case in broad daylight. What survives today, alongside other artefacts from the San Pedro now held in the National Museum of Bermuda's collection, is a plaster cast replica made before the original vanished, along with a mystery that has outlasted the very treasure it was meant to protect.