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Colombian cut gold "finger" bar from the Atocha (1622), 331.3 grams, 21-1/2K, marked with owner/foun

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Coins: Shipwreck Ingots Start Price:16,000.00 USD Estimated At:20,000.00 - 30,000.00 USD
Colombian cut gold  finger  bar from the Atocha (1622), 331.3 grams, 21-1/2K, marked with owner/foun
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Colombian cut gold "finger" bar from the Atocha (1622), 331.3 grams, 21-1/2K, marked with owner/foundry "EN RADA" (Pena-Randa), plated in Treasure of the Atocha. 6-1/4" long, about 1" wide and 1/4" thick. Typically flat bar with five partial tax stamps (circular sections with dot borders), three fineness markings (each XXI with two dots below), and one full owner/foundry mark, all nicely contrasting with toning in crevices and some black encrustation, the cut end very neatly sliced with no other clips, an impressively marked example with a very manageable amount of intrinsic value, also desirable as pedigreed to the main book about the Atocha by Duncan Mathewson. From the Atocha (1622), with Fisher photo-certificate #551 (pre-1980), and featured (before cleaning, encrusted with chain and another bar) on page C-7 of Mathewson's book Treasure of the Atocha (1986).