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Treasure Auction 25  2-3 May 2019
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Lot 203

Starting price: 3200 USD
Price realized: 9000 USD
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Silver "tumbaga" bar #M-105, 3595 grams, marked with assayer B~Vo, serial RC, fineness IVCC L (1250/2400, 52.08% fine) and several partial tax stamps, ex-"Tumbaga wreck" (ca. 1528), Garcia-Barneche Plate. 12-1/2" x 4" x 1/2". A wide, flat bar with fairly smooth top surface showing bold markings in center (the small partial tax stamps more toward ends), slightly raised area to right, rough and darkly toned bottom, chevron-shaped assayer's "bite" in one corner. As noted in Armstrong, this bar is a mold-mate with M-106. From the "Tumbaga wreck" (ca. 1528), plated on page 108 of Agustin Garcia-Barneche's The Tumbaga Saga, 2nd edition (2018), also pedigreed to our Auction #7, lot #159, with photo-certificate.
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