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Small silver "plata corriente" piece cut from a "splash" ingot with partial tax stamp, 11.81 grams,

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / Shipwreck Ingots Start Price:240.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 450.00 USD
Small silver  plata corriente  piece cut from a  splash  ingot with partial tax stamp, 11.81 grams,
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Small silver "plata corriente" piece cut from a "splash" ingot with partial tax stamp, 11.81 grams, ex-Ponte, García-Barneche Plate. Roughly 1¼" x ¾". Thinner than usual but with very bold partial tax stamp showing (HIS)PANI, dark in crevices for good contrast, cut from the rounded edge of the original ingot, well circulated in its time (1500s) as a 4 reales. Pedigreed to the Luis R. Ponte Collection and Sedwick Auction 18, with original lot-tag 243, and plated on page 23 of Agustín García-Barneche's The "Tumbaga" Saga, 2nd ed. (2018).