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Small, coin-like cut gold piece ("oro corriente") of a Colombian "finger" bar marked with Charles I

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Coins: Shipwreck Ingots Start Price:4,000.00 USD Estimated At:5,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD
Small, coin-like cut gold piece ( oro corriente ) of a Colombian  finger  bar marked with Charles I
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Small, coin-like cut gold piece ("oro corriente") of a Colombian "finger" bar marked with Charles I tax stamp, 42.08 grams, from an unidentified ca.-1570 wreck off the northern coast of South America. About 1" x 5/8" x 11/32". Rectangular cross-section cut of a flat "finger" bar, very important for showing the entire tax stamp, whose design of a crowned CA above a two-branch pomegranate had not been seen prior to two other specimens in our previous auction and almost certainly refers to manufacture in Colombia (Nuevo Reino de Granada), the two perpendicular cuts very neat (not broken), with much smaller cut in one corner as well, probably to regulate the piece down to about 1-1/2 escudos.