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Shipwreck
and Non-Shipwreck Silver and Gold Ingots
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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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"Tumbaga Wreck," sunk ca. 1528 off Grand Bahama Island
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Silver "tumbaga" bar,
2624.4 grams, marked with fineness IUCCCCXXX (1430/2400, 59.58% fine) and
serial RC, ex-Christie's 1993, ex-Wallace Katz. Lot #281 of the famous
first offering of the bars from this wreck by Christie's London in April
1993, prior to conservation of a majority of these bars by Doug Armstrong
(therefore not mentioned in his book), also pedigreed to the Estate of
Wallace Katz, a well-known collector in New York City. |
c102101161003 |
N/A |
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SS Central America, sunk in 1857 off North Carolina
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Pinch of gold dust
recovered from the S.S. Central America (1857), in Global Certification
Services plastic holder. Typical promotional "slab" containing an
undefined amount (roughly 1.5 grams) known as a "pinch" of natural gold
flakes from the California Gold Rush, mostly dust but a few flakes as large
as 2mm. GCS #501256.1579. |
c042102161001 |
SOLD |
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