Gold "oro corriente" cut piece of an ingot, 27.90 grams, marked with Charles I tax stamp. 1" x 1/2" x 7/16". Neatly cut chunk of a "finger" bar, with three very sharp, sloping cuts, the narrow top with faint crowned-C mark (the bottom smooth), probably meant to approximate an 8 escudos. From a Spanish colonial site in the southern Caribbean
Estimate: $3000