Watch List notes:

Gold "finger" bar ingot #548, 455 grams, marked with three partial tax stamps only, tested at 21.5K fine gold, ex-Atocha (1622), with hand-signed certificate from 1976. 6" x 1" x 1/2". Dark gold in color and neatly cast in a "half cigar" shape with relatively flat top bearing three light stamps that show only the outer dotted border of a Royal tax seal (typically minimally applied to conserve the seal itself), no markings of serial number, assayer/foundry or fineness but with typical removal at one end for testing in its time (the other end naturally round), desirable as not just a pre-"Mother Lode" find but also certified as recovered several years prior to the big yield of gold bars in 1980 when the site of the Santa Margarita was positively identified. From the Atocha (1622), with original Fisher photo-certificate 548 from 1976 (Cape Coral Bank), hand-signed by Eugene Lyon, Duncan Mathewson, Austin Fowles, Melvin (Mel) and Dolores (Deo) Fisher, pedigreed to the J.P. Silberman Estate.

Estimate: $35000 - $70000