Watch List notes:

Cut segment of a gold "finger" bar #542, 70.68 grams, marked with fineness XVII and three dots (17-3/4K) and tax stamp, ex-Atocha (1622), with hand-signed Fisher certificate from 1976. Roughly 1-1/4" x 1-1/4" x 1/4". Hefty end-piece of a wide, flat bar, with one end round and smooth and the other chiseled twice, bearing a fineness marking (curiously with the XVII in reverse order) stamped on top of a partial circular tax stamp, with a few old chisel-marks, nice color and desirable pre-"Mother Lode" certification. From the Atocha (1622), with original photo-certificate #542 (State ID 3388) from 1976 (Cape Coral Bank) hand-signed by Mel Fisher, Dolores Fisher, Eugene Lyon, R. Duncan Mathewson and Austin Fowles.
($10000-20000)