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Small, cut gold "finger" bar, 116 grams, fineness 20-1/4K. "Golden Fleece wreck," sunk ca. 1550 in t

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Shipwreck Ingots Start Price:5,000.00 USD Estimated At:5,000.00 - 7,500.00 USD
Small, cut gold  finger  bar, 116 grams, fineness 20-1/4K.  Golden Fleece wreck,  sunk ca. 1550 in t
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Small, cut gold "finger" bar, 116 grams, fineness 20-1/4K. 4-1/4" long, 1/2" to 3/4" wide and about 1/4" thick. One of the thinnest (genuine) gold ingots we have seen, its uncut length probably due to the fact that it bears just one marking of fineness XX-dot (hence not further reducible), with one end round as cast and the other neatly cut and now loaded with white coral, all lustrous but somewhat crudely cast.

Recovered from: "Golden Fleece wreck," sunk ca. 1550 in the northern Caribbean