Treasure, World & U.S. Coin Auction #20

Complete gold "strap" ingot for making oro corriente pieces, marked five times with circular tax stamp of Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (C...

Gold "finger" bar, 713 grams, marked with fineness XVI• (16.25K), encrusted with coral as from the "Golden Fleece wreck" (ca. 15...

Large gold disk (contraband?), 2029 grams, marked with fineness XI• (11.25K, confirmed by testing), from the 1715 Fleet. 5" in diameter and 7/...

Natural gold nugget, 35.27 grams, from Alaska. Roughly 1-1/4" x 3/4" x 1/2". Nice-sized nugget with typically very craggy surfaces p...

Natural gold nugget, 23.84 grams, from Alaska. Roughly 1" x 5/8" x 5/8". Chewing-gum sized chunk of attractive gold with smoothed po...

Natural gold nugget, 8.81 grams, from the Feather River in California. Roughly 1/2" x 1/2" x 1/4". Very clean, bright nugget with mo...

Natural gold nugget, 3.81 grams. Roughly 5/8" x 3/8" x 1/8". Very rough surfaces with traces of black and whitish matrix and debris,...

Lot of 18 natural gold nuggets from rivers near Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 37.54 grams total. Each up to 1/2" in length. Solid, mostly...

Silver "tumbaga" bar #M-61, 2119 grams, marked with fineness IV III L XXX (1380/2400) and two tax stamps, large area of exposed copper. A...

Large silver bar #451, 82 lb 7.36 oz troy, Class Factor 1.0, manifest #747, fineness 2380/2400, dated 1622 (Potosi), owner/shipper Ucarraga / Munibe /

Small, neatly formed silver contraband ingot, 833 grams, marked with fineness III-V-I, from the Capitana (1654). 4" x 1-1/2" x 1". S...

Contraband silver "wedge" ingot, 968 grams, from the 1715 Fleet. 3-1/2" x 3" x 2". Large triangular ingot with no markings...

Contraband silver "half cylinder" ingot, 567 grams, from the 1715 Fleet. 3" x 3" x 1-1/2". Darkly encrusted (uncleaned) on...

Small, contraband silver "wedge" ingot, 269 grams, from the 1715 Fleet. 2-3/4" x 2-1/4" x 1-1/4". More random in shape tha...

Lot of 3 pieces of an original riel (strap) for making cob planchets, 129 grams total, very rare, from the 1715 Fleet. 4" x 2-1/2" assemb...

Small, contraband silver "cylinder" ingot, 333 grams, from the 1733 Fleet. 2" in diameter and 2" tall. Mostly perfectly cylindr...

Lot of 2 very small silver "splash" ingots, 189 grams total, from the 1733 Fleet. Each about 2-1/2" x 2". Very irregular flat p...

Neatly formed silver ingot, 1372 grams, about 98.5% fine, no stamps visible, from the Bredenhof (1753). 5-3/4" x 1-1/2" x 1". A typi...

Neatly formed silver ingot, 1066 grams, about 98.5% fine, no stamps visible, from the Bredenhof (1753). 5-1/2" x 1-1/2" x 1". Origin...