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Shipwreck Treasure Ingots

Shipwreck Treasure Silver and Gold Bars

 

Bullion ingots from shipwrecks do not exist in great quantities—typically any given shipwreck will yield ALL known specimens of that particular style of ingot, and with the exception of the hundreds of monstrous (80-lb.) loaf-shaped bricks of silver from the Atocha, I have never heard of more than about 200 similar ingots found at once. Compare that to coin rarities, and you will quickly realize that ingots are much rarer than contemporaneous coins, and of course they are almost always more impressive.

 

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   Gold Treasure Ingots: (nuggets, oro corriente)

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Gold "finger" bar #30, 885 grams, 20-3/4K, with original Fisher photo-certificate.

Gold nugget #1004, 19 grams. 3/4" in diameter and 1/4" thick. A flattened sphere of high-grade gold, very coin-like, with void near edge but otherwise fully round and thick, the flattened surfaces smooth and clean. Recovered from the Espadarte, sunk in 1558 off Mozambique, with Arqueonautas certificate.

 c110904193001 $1,250
 

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Lot of 6 small, coin-like silver cut pieces ( Lot of 6 small, coin-like silver cut pieces ("plata corriente"), 22.9 grams total. These are small "nuggets" of silver, cut from "splash" ingots and bars, and documented as having circulated in the New World prior to the establishment of mints in Mexico and Peru. Naturally this form of currency was highly controversial, as most of it did not go through proper taxation! The crown had no choice but to let it circulate, however, until true coins were available, at which time there was a massive recall, making surviving pieces like these extremely rare. In this lot you have more or less an 8 reales' worth in a good mix of shapes and sizes, some with ample encrustation but all rather dark and crude. Recovered from: "Tumbaga" wreck, sunk ca. 1528 off Grand Bahama Island c040904191005 $295
Small, oval, silver disk, 12.85 troy oz. Small, oval, silver disk, 12.85 troy oz. No markings, very interesting texture (a bit crystalline, with lots of stress cracks and flow lines). Recovered from: Unidentified ca.-1554 wreck off Santo Domingo c050816011043 $750
Very irregular, somewhat triangular-cut piece of a silver "splash" ingot, 5.73 troy oz. Oddly pointed cut piece, apparently an edge piece with part of it cut along a bubble in the metal, no markings, but also no corrosion to speak of, toned all over, somewhere between a coin-like cut and a stand-alone ingot. Very irregular, somewhat triangular-cut piece of a silver "splash" ingot, 5.73 troy oz. Oddly pointed cut piece, apparently an edge piece with part of it cut along a bubble in the metal, no markings, but also no corrosion to speak of, toned all over, somewhere between a coin-like cut and a stand-alone ingot. Recovered from: Unidentified ca.-1554 wreck off Santo Domingo c050816011045 $595
Irregular (triangular) cut piece broken off a silver "splash" ingot, 4.08 troy oz. Thick, crudely broken, interior chunk of silver with interesting whitish encrustation against dark silver, loaded with stress fractures from the breakage, no markings, bigger than a coin-like piece but smaller than a typical ingot. c050807176038 $575 Irregular (triangular) cut piece broken off a silver "splash" ingot, 4.08 troy oz. Thick, crudely broken, interior chunk of silver with interesting whitish encrustation against dark silver, loaded with stress fractures from the breakage, no markings, bigger than a coin-like piece but smaller than a typical ingot. Recovered from: Unidentified ca.-1554 wreck off Santo Domingo c050807176038 $575
Irregular half-cut piece of a thin, silver Irregular half-cut piece of a thin, silver "splash" ingot, 10.96 troy oz. No markings, with lots of bubbles on one side and flow lines on the other, also with a spot of white coral near the edge, all nicely toned. Recovered from: Unidentified ca.-1554 wreck off Santo Domingo c050816011045 $695
Irregular (triangular) cut piece broken off the edge of a thin silver Irregular (triangular) cut piece broken off the edge of a thin silver "splash" ingot, 2.33 troy oz. No visible markings, smoother texture than most but with bubble void atÊ point between two breaks. Recovered from: Unidentified ca.-1554 wreck off Santo Domingo c050816011050 $525
Irregular (rectangular) cut piece broken twice radially and once tangentially off a thin silver Irregular (rectangular) cut piece broken twice radially and once tangentially off a thin silver "splash" ingot, 1.69 troy oz. No visible markings, fairly even surfaces, just a little corroded. Recovered from: Unidentified ca.-1554 wreck off Santo Domingo c050816011051 $495
 

 

 

 

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